How to specify a daemon shutdown command with upstart?

Question

In an upstart configuration how do I define what command should be used to shutdown a server. Lets say I have daemon that has two seperate processes.

• startup.sh - to start the server
• shutdown.sh - to shut down the server

Suppose I have an upstart file that looks like this.

description "Some Example Service"
author "Me"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]
respawn

exec satrtup.sh 

How do I tell upstart that it should called shutdown.sh when shutting down the server? How does upstart normally expect to shut down a daemon?

Answer 1

Normal shutdown consists of signaling TERM then KILL 5 seconds later. Use pre-start exec shutdown.sh for your situation.