changed template for /etc/init/{{app_name}} This seems to fix issue sbt#357 for Ubuntu 14.04.

Author: flowma

src/main/resources/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/archetypes/upstart/start-debian-template

@@ -10,23 +10,22 @@ author "${{author}}"
 
 # When to start the service
 start on runlevel ${{start_runlevels}}
-start on started ${{start_facilities}}
 
 # When to stop the service
 stop on runlevel ${{stop_runlevels}}
-stop on stopping ${{stop_facilities}}
 
 # Automatically restart process if crashed. Tries ${{retries}} times every ${{retryTimeout}} seconds
 respawn
 respawn limit ${{retries}} ${{retryTimeout}}
 
+pre-start script
+        [ -d /var/run/${{app_name}} ] || install -m 755 -o ${{daemon_user}} -g ${{daemon_user}} -d /var/run/${{app_name}}
+end script
+
 # set the working directory of the job processes
 chdir ${{chdir}}
 
-# changes to the user and group before running the job's process
-setuid ${{daemon_user}}
-
 # Start the process
 script
-  exec ./bin/${{exec}}
+  exec sudo -u ${{daemon_user}} ./bin/${{exec}}
 end script

src/main/scala/com/typesafe/sbt/packager/archetypes/JavaServerApplication.scala

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ object JavaServerAppPackaging {
   private[this] def defaultFacilities(loader: ServerLoader): String = {
     loader match {
       case SystemV => "$remote_fs $syslog"
-      case Upstart => "[networking]"
+      case Upstart => ""
       case Systemd => "network.target"
     }
   }

src/sbt-test/debian/upstart-deb/build.sbt

@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ InputKey[Unit]("check-softlink") <<= inputTask { (argTask: TaskKey[Seq[String]])
 TaskKey[Unit]("check-startup-script") <<= (target, streams) map { (target, out) =>
   val script = IO.read(target / "debian-test-0.1.0" / "etc" / "init" / "debian-test.conf")
   assert(script.contains("start on runlevel [2345]"), "script doesn't contain start on runlevel header\n" + script)
-  assert(script.contains("start on started [networking]"), "script doesn't contain start on [networking] header\n" + script)
   assert(script.contains("stop on runlevel [016]"), "script doesn't contain stop on runlevel header\n" + script)
-  assert(script.contains("stop on stopping [networking]"), "script doesn't contain stop on [networking] header\n" + script)
   out.log.success("Successfully tested systemV start up script")
   ()
 }