upstart service giving 'chdir: command not found' error

Question

I've created an upstart conf script called watch_folder.conf that i have used successfully on a few ubuntu installs already but for some reason I'm getting an error from the following code:

#/etc/init/watch_folder.conf

description "watch folder service"
author      "Jonathan Topf"

start on startup

stop on shutdown

respawn
respawn limit 99 5


script
        chdir /home/jon/Dropbox/Render\ Farm\ 1/appleseed/bin
        exec /usr/bin/python ./watchfolder.py  ../../data/
        echo "watch_folder started"
end script

if I look inside /var/log/upstart/watch_folder.log i see the following

/proc/self/fd/9: line 2: chdir: command not found
/proc/self/fd/9: line 2: chdir: command not found
/proc/self/fd/9: line 2: chdir: command not found
/proc/self/fd/9: line 2: chdir: command not found
/proc/self/fd/9: line 2: chdir: command not found
/proc/self/fd/9: line 2: chdir: command not found
...

Does anybody know what may cause this error, its perplexing me!

Solution

chdir is its own stanza. Move it from inside the script block to outside. Here's how it should probably look:

description "watch folder service"
author      "Jonathan Topf"

start on startup
stop on shutdown

respawn
respawn limit 99 5

chdir /home/jon/Dropbox/Render\ Farm\ 1/appleseed/bin

script
        exec /usr/bin/python ./watchfolder.py  ../../data/
        echo "watch_folder started"
end script