How do you set Lita to start on boot?

[alixodendhal]

I'm trying to set Lita to launch on boot (server) in crontab but it is not working. What am I doing wrong?

@reboot cd /lita ; /usr/bin/screen -dmS lita /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/bin/lita

i assume cron does not have the right ENV but I used absolute paths

[jimmycuadra]

Cron is probably not the right tool to use for this. I'd recommend a process management system, which may very depending on what OS you're using. Some good choices are Upstart (for Ubuntu, though technically cross-platform), Launchd (for OS X), Monit, Supervisord, or Runit (all cross-platform).

[nogweii]

https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun is an excellent abstraction between a lot of those different init daemons.