This is a rudimentary template that I've been using for very quick and dirty /etc/init.d scripts recently.
It works under the assumption that your server daemon has a unique name and only ever runs a single instance - this also means that the binary and the init.d script cannot share a name - otherwise strange things happen 
Actual invocation logic may need to be updated on a per-service basis and chkconfig style headers would have to be added manually, but it works well for what it is.
DIR='' # path to the daemon executable
CMD='' # name of the command itself
ARG='' # optional. any arguments to pass when starting
NAM='' # descriptive name of the daemon so it shows up pretty
function get_ps {
ps --no-header -C${CMD}
}
function do_start {
echo -n "Starting ${NAM}... "
cd ${DIR}
nohup ./${CMD} ${ARG} &
SUCC=`get_ps | wc -l`
if [ "1" == "$SUCC" ]; then
echo "[SUCCESS]"
else
echo "[FAILURE]"
fi
}
function do_stop {
echo -n "Stopping ${NAM}... "
PID=`get_ps | awk '{print $1}'`
kill $PID
SUCC=`get_ps | wc -l`
if [ "0" == "$SUCC" ]; then
echo "[SUCCESS]"
else
echo "[FAILURE]"
fi
}
case "${1:-''}" in
'start')
do_start
;;
'stop')
do_stop
;;
'restart')
do_stop
do_start
;;
*)
#echo "Usage: $SELF start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status"
echo "Usage: $SELF start|stop|restart"
exit 1
;;
esac
Posted by Ammon as play at 10:29 AM EDT