[NMLUG] Debian Startup Script

[jamesh at swcp.com (James Hamilton)]

Here'a generic one that I use for such things.  Just change the DAEMON, NAME,
DESC, and OPTIONS lines and it should fire right up.

#! /bin/sh

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/some/path/to/program
NAME=PROGNAME
DESC="Description of your program here"

OPTIONS=""

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --exec $DAEMON
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --exec $DAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0


On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:33:57AM -0700, Tim Emerick wrote:
> Hey all.
>  
> I've been attempting to convert a startup script from Redhat to work on my Debian machine but being a bit of a noob it's greek to me.  Can someone help me out.  It's a script to startup BOINC as a daemon as the user boinc.  
>  
> The original Redhat script is here (http://noether.vassar.edu/~myers/help/boinc/init.d-boinc).  I compared it to some standard debian scripts (atd, samba, etc) and I'm sure hacked it to pieces.  The original script worked once I commented out the redhat functions line (line 20??).  It was ugly and spewed error messages but it worked.  Here's what I have so far in my conversion process......it doesn't work. ...sigh...
>  
> Thanks - Tim
>  


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