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+description "Ipê Upstart job definition"
+author "Claudemiro Alves Feitosa Neto"
+
+start on (net-device-up
+          and local-filesystems
+          and runlevel [2345])
+
+stop on runlevel [016]
+
+respawn
+
+exec /path/to/ipe -config="path_to_config.json" -log_dir="path_to_log_dir"
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