name: Simple Netcat Server Example
location: localhost
services:
- type: brooklyn.entity.basic.VanillaSoftwareProcess
  name: Simple Netcat Server
  launch.command: |
    echo hello | nc -l 4321 &
    echo $! > $PID_FILE

  # The following overrides demonstrate the use of a custom shell environment as well as
  # check-running and stop commands. These are optional; default behavior will "do the
  # right thing" with the pid file automatically.

  env:                  { CHECK_MARKER: "checkRunning", STOP_MARKER: "stop" }
  checkRunning.command: echo $CHECK_MARKER >> DATE && test -f "$PID_FILE" && ps -p `cat $PID_FILE` >/dev/null
  stop.command:         echo $STOP_MARKER  >> DATE && test -f "$PID_FILE" && { kill -9 `cat $PID_FILE`; rm /tmp/vanilla.pid; }

# can also define download.url, in which case the launch command defaults to ./start.sh in that (archive) file