Cleaned up the Upstart script.

recipes/default.rb

@@ -23,21 +23,12 @@
   notifies :restart, "service[statsd]"
 end
 
-directory "#{node["statsd"]["dir"]}/scripts" do
-  action :create
-end
-
-template "#{node["statsd"]["dir"]}/scripts/start" do
-  source "start.erb"
-  mode 0755
-  variables(
-    :log_file => node["statsd"]["log_file"]
-  )
-end
-
 template "/etc/init/statsd.conf" do
   mode "0644"
   source "statsd.conf.erb"
+  variables(
+    :log_file => node["statsd"]["log_file"]
+  )
 end
 
 user "statsd" do

templates/default/statsd.conf.erb

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-description "statsd"
+description "StatsD"
 author "Chef"
 
-start on startup
-stop on shutdown
+start on runlevel [2345]
+stop on runlevel [!2345]
 
-script
-    export HOME="/root"
+respawn
+expect daemon
 
-    exec sudo -u statsd /usr/share/statsd/scripts/start
-end script
+exec start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --chdir /usr/share/statsd --user statsd --chuid statsd --name statsd --startas /usr/local/bin/node --background -- /usr/share/statsd/stats.js /etc/statsd/config.js 2>&1 >> <%= @log_file %>
+
+emits statsd-running