C-Gate comms on Ubuntu Linux

Having just played with this I thought some people might find this useful.

Later versions of Ubuntu have upstart to manage system processes, and I've just got this working with cgate.

Basics: I have a cgate user/group, and my cgate files are installed in /opt/cgate (owned by the cgate user).

I created /etc/init/cgate.conf as follows:

Code:

# C-Gate Service

description     "C-Gate"
author          "Mark Rogers <[email protected]>"

start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems
          and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [016]

respawn
script
        cd /opt/cgate
        sudo -ucgate -gcgate java -noverify -jar cgate.jar
end script

.. then start it with

Code:

sudo start cgate

If cgate dies (or I kill it) it automatically restarts as it should. (To stop it properly, use "sudo stop cgate".)

I particularly like the fact that I will have another service that depends on cgate, so it's .conf file will include:

Code:

start on started cgate
stop on stopped cgate

so that it starts automatically when cgate does, and stops automatically if cgate does.

Note that it's early days and I haven't tested this much yet, I thought I'd share it while it was fresh in my mind!
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