On Ubuntu 14.04 I have not been able to get the Bitcoin daemon to automatically restart. Rarely the daemon dies and it is important that it starts again without manual intervention. To get it to start automatically with Upstart I have followed the guide linked below. It starts with sudo start bitcoind as expected but the service does not restart if it fails.
Ubuntu Linux — How do I start bitcoind as a service to run automatically?Ubuntu Linux — How do I start bitcoind as a service to run automatically?
My conf file in /etc/init/ is as follows.
description "bitcoind"
start on filesystem
stop on runlevel [!2345]
oom score -500
expect fork
respawn
respawn limit 20 90 # 10 times in 60 seconds
script
user=bitcoinuser
home=/home/$user
cmd=/usr/bin/bitcoind
pidfile=$home/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid
# Don't change anything below here unless you know what you're doing
[[ -e $pidfile && ! -d "/proc/$(cat $pidfile)" ]] && rm $pidfile
[[ -e $pidfile && "$(cat /proc/$(cat $pidfile)/cmdline)" != $cmd* ]] && rm $pidfile
exec start-stop-daemon --start -c $user --chdir $home --pidfile $pidfile --startas $cmd -b --nicelevel 15 -m
end script
If I run ps -aux | grep bitcoind to get the process ID and kill it the daemon does not restart as desired. I have followed the guide and cannot see what is wrong with the set up. As a side note sudo stop bitcoind does not actually stop it from running.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
