Support Amazon Linux as an upstart capable Linux distro

[evadnoob]

...ich makes sense since it's a port of centos or redhat.

To install with the upstart daemon run like:
sudo bash -c 'USE_UPSTART=1 /usr/local/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch install'
Also see gist here: https://gist.github.com/evadnoob/5869793

[kimchy]

so, the service wrapper is actually a library we use and embed, I tend to be cautious about changing code there, since the next version we pull in means we need to maintain it. have you looked into just using our deb package?

[evadnoob]

No, have not looked into it as adding more linux distributions to our mix makes maintenance harder :-) Same argument you're making.

The change is pretty trivial and doesn't seem much different than the difference between redhat linux and centos. It doesn't really matter too much to me if you pull this request, I've forked it, it's fine for me. But I'd thought I'd share that I've got it working with with just minor changes to use upstart.

On Jun 26, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Shay Banon [email protected] wrote:

so, the service wrapper is actually a library we use and embed, I tend to be cautious about changing code there, since the next version we pull in means we need to maintain it. have you looked into just using our deb package?

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[kimchy]

What is the problem with installing from the deb package (which includes init.d build in)? Compared to the tag.gz with the addition of service wrapper and having to configure paths and such?