description "Dash Core Daemon" start on runlevel [2345] stop on starting rc RUNLEVEL=[016] env BITCOIND_BIN="/usr/bin/dashd" env BITCOIND_USER="dash" env BITCOIND_GROUP="dash" env BITCOIND_PIDDIR="/var/run/dashd" # upstart can't handle variables constructed with other variables env BITCOIND_PIDFILE="/var/run/dashd/dashd.pid" env BITCOIND_CONFIGFILE="/etc/dash/dash.conf" env BITCOIND_DATADIR="/var/lib/dashd" expect fork respawn respawn limit 5 120 kill timeout 60 pre-start script # this will catch non-existent config files # dashd will check and exit with this very warning, but it can do so # long after forking, leaving upstart to think everything started fine. # since this is a commonly encountered case on install, just check and # warn here. if ! grep -qs '^rpcpassword=' "$BITCOIND_CONFIGFILE" ; then echo "ERROR: You must set a secure rpcpassword to run dashd." echo "The setting must appear in $BITCOIND_CONFIGFILE" echo echo "This password is security critical to securing wallets " echo "and must not be the same as the rpcuser setting." echo "You can generate a suitable random password using the following" echo "command from the shell:" echo echo "bash -c 'tr -dc a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | head -c32 && echo'" echo echo "It is also recommended that you also set alertnotify so you are " echo "notified of problems:" echo echo "ie: alertnotify=echo %%s | mail -s \"Dash Alert\"" \ "admin@foo.com" echo exit 1 fi mkdir -p "$BITCOIND_PIDDIR" chmod 0755 "$BITCOIND_PIDDIR" chown $BITCOIND_USER:$BITCOIND_GROUP "$BITCOIND_PIDDIR" chown $BITCOIND_USER:$BITCOIND_GROUP "$BITCOIND_CONFIGFILE" chmod 0660 "$BITCOIND_CONFIGFILE" end script exec start-stop-daemon \ --start \ --pidfile "$BITCOIND_PIDFILE" \ --chuid $BITCOIND_USER:$BITCOIND_GROUP \ --exec "$BITCOIND_BIN" \ -- \ -pid="$BITCOIND_PIDFILE" \ -conf="$BITCOIND_CONFIGFILE" \ -datadir="$BITCOIND_DATADIR" \ -disablewallet \ -daemon