Upstart for Tiny Tiny RSS
Since Google Reader left town I've been using an installation of Tiny Tiny RSS and rather than firing the update script via cron I'm using the following Upstart script for Ubuntu.
description "Tiny Tiny RSS Feed Updater"
author "Alistair Phillips alistair@alistairphillips.com"
# We're using PostgreSQL http://paulwhippconsulting.com/blog/upstart-jobs-that-depend-upon-non-upstart-jobs/
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
setuid www
setgid www
script
chdir /var/www/path/to/tt-rss
exec /usr/bin/php ./update_daemon2.php
end script