upstart exec prevents daemon from creating pid

Question

I have a simple upstart script that exec my daemon. When doing so, the correct pid is returned by upstart, but my daemon is not able to create the actual pid file.

script 
    VM=$(cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal | awk '{ print $2 }')
    ulimit -v $VM
    ulimit -c unlimited
    exec $DAEMON
end script

If I execute $DAEMON from the command line, then everything forks and the pid file is created as expected.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '13 at 17:23

If you are using Ubuntu Raring/Saucy or Debian sid, you can easily install procenv to for full environmental details (as shown in the links above).

upstart exec prevents daemon from creating pid

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