Running bash script in upstart .conf script

bash startup upstart

Running a command via exec with arguments is fine - see http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Stanzas#exec which gives such an example.

However, upstart will use /bin/sh not bash, so if your script needs bash you'd need something like

script    exec bash -c '/etc/kvm_manage start'end script

Update: See also the suggestion in the comments from Guss to use the exec stanza instead for simple cases:

exec bash -c '/etc/kvm_manage start'

Or if kvm_manage is an executable with a she-bang (#!/bin/bash), then simply:

exec /etc/kvm_manage start

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