upstart script not logging to file

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Linux CentOS 6.5

Here's my upstart script inside of /etc/init/

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

exec /usr/bin/riofs --fuse-options="allow_other" --fmode=0777 --dmode=0777 ct.recordergo /mnt/applications/recorder/streams/_definst_/s3

I want to run this program once on startup.

I get no logs inside of /var/log/upstart.

I'm not sure if the script is working or not. How can get it to log a success or failure?

Where have you located this script ? – user9517 Jun 04 '14 at 16:18 — user9517, Jun 04 '14 at 16:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 04 '14 at 17:19

You can enable debugging to the system log with the initctl log-priority <priority> command.

To change the priority with which Upstart logs messages to the system log, you can change the log priority at any time using log-priority command as follows:
initctl log-priority <priority>
Where <priority> may be one of:

debug, info, message, warn, error, fatal

See http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#debugging for more information

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '14 at 16:12

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The version of Upstart in centos is very old (v0.6.5 from 2010) and does not have logging support. Use the work-around as documented in the Upstart Cookbook:

http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#versions-of-upstart-older-than-1-4

answered Jun 11 '14 at 16:12

user282262

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This is for an Ubuntu server. I'm not running an Ubuntu server, and thus, I don't have the /dev/.initramfs directory that the directions are telling me to write logs to. When I tried this it didn't work – Jun 19 '14 at 15:24

upstart script not logging to file

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