How do I specify to install the Daemon

[marcofranssen]

Hi,

Using links I created a symlink in the init.d directory.

What is the best way to do the install of this daemon

update-rc.d install mypackage defaults

I'm asking this since it should also work when I release an update for this package.

[Deleted user]

Since support was recently added to specify control files (see: #3), you could add the update-rc.d command into your postinst, and then in your postrm file put:

update-rc.d -f mypackage remove

to remove the daemon.

Another option would be to use upstart which lets you specify at what runlevels to run in the init script itself, i.e.:

# /etc/init/myapp.conf
description "My NodeJS App"                                                                                                                

start on runlevel [2345]                                                        
stop on runlevel [!2345]                                                        

respawn                                                                         
respawn limit 5 60 # try 5 times within 60 seconds, or giveup                   

script                                                                          
    echo $$ > /var/run/myapp.pid                                            
    cd /location/of/app;                                                     
    exec sudo -u username NODE_ENV=production /usr/bin/node server.js >> /var/log/myapp/myapp.log 2>&1
end script                                                                      

pre-start script                                                                
    mkdir -p /var/log/myapp                                                 
    echo "\n[`date +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting\n" >> /var/log/myapp/myapp.log
end script                                                                      

pre-stop script                                                                 
    rm /var/run/myapp.pid                                                   
    echo "\n[`date +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Stopping\n" >> /var/log/myapp/myapp.log
end script

This is the strategy i'm using, but i'll probably switch to init since upstart is being deprecated. I also have my postinst file create a user and group for my package and install NPM dependencies.

[marcofranssen]

That did the trick