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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.

#!/bin/bash

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