[06:07] <tylerflint> anyone awake?
[06:08] <tylerflint> I have an executable that doesn't daemonize itself
[06:08] <tylerflint> so I figured I could use start-stop-daemon
[06:09] <tylerflint> however, upstart thinks the daemon is dead when it is quite alive
[06:09] <tylerflint> I'm assuming it's because upstart doesn't know about the pidfile
[06:23] <ion> Why do you want it to daemonize itself?
[06:24] <ion> Pid files are a *very* unreliable way to keep track of processes, Upstart ignores such things.
[06:29] <tylerflint> I see
[06:30] <tylerflint> I only want it to daemonize so that it won't block the upstart process
[06:30] <tylerflint> unless I am misunderstanding how upstart works
[06:31] <ion> It definitely won’t block Upstart.
[06:31] <tylerflint> interesting
[06:32] <ion> “exec program-that-doesnt-daemonize” is the most trivial case of running a service.
[06:32] <tylerflint> wow
[06:32] <tylerflint> I guess I was making this way too complicated
[06:36] <tylerflint> if I use env FOO="bar"
[06:36] <tylerflint> will FOO be accessible by my program?
[06:37] <tylerflint> just as export FOO="bar" in a shell?
[06:48] <ion> yeah
[06:50] <ion> The cookbook has some examples.
[06:51] <tylerflint> thanks
[06:51] <tylerflint> I think I
[06:51] <tylerflint> 've got something that will work
[06:51] <tylerflint> seems really clean