Launch Bamboo on Mac OS X as a StartupItem

Question

Does anyone have a sample configuration file for launching Bamboo as a StartupItem on OS X?  I have a Bamboo installation that uses MySQL as its database.  I copied and modified the MySQL to start bamboo.  But although I can see in the system logs that the script is being called and bamboo.sh console is being called, Bamboo isn't being brought up, and it doesn't leave any messages in its logs explaining why.

Gregory Kellum · Answer

I ended up configuring bamboo to run as a launch daemon by putting this script in /Library/LaunchDaemons. It would be great if you added this sort of functionality to the installers when you overhaul them later, but just putting a paragraph about this in your installation manual now would probably be enough for most people. Disabled EnvironmentVariables BAMBOO_HOME /Applications/Bamboo JAVA_HOME /Library/Java/Home Label com.atlassian.bamboo OnDemand ProgramArguments /Applications/Bamboo/bamboo.sh console RunAtLoad ServiceDescription Bamboo StandardErrorPath /Applications/Bamboo/logs/bamboo.stderr StandardOutPath /Applications/Bamboo/logs/bamboo.stdout UserName root

James Dumay · Answer

Hi Greg,

Unfortunately Bamboo does not ship with a Mac OS X startup item. However, we are going to be doing a major overhaul of our installers in the coming year so I have raised a feature request for this on your behalf.

Cheers,

James