Script for init.d to start/stop the demon

[Brian Orpin]

So, first attempt at this so if there any glaring errors please let me know :)  This is to start the daemon at boot.  It does not check whether the daemon continues to run, or if it is logging.

This is a script to be placed in the /etc/init.d/ folder.  Edit any of the variables to suit your system.  Make it executable. 

Test it using /etc/init.d/pywws-livelog-daemon start 

check the status /etc/init.d/pywws-livelog-daemon status 

stop it with /etc/init.d/pywws-livelog-daemon stop 

It seems update-rc.d is being depreciated so I used insserv to set up the auto start links.

Firstly run it with the -n option which does not change anything.  If it is OK then run it again without the -n

sudo insserv -n -v pywws-livelog-daemon

Reboot the pi and chcck the status.

Start code;

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:        pywws-livelog-daemon

# Required-Start:  $all

# Required-Stop:   $all

# Default-Start:   2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:    0 1 6

# Short-Description: Start pywws daemon

### END INIT INFO

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/pywws-livelog-daemon.py

PIDFILE=/var/run/pywws.pid

DATADIR=/home/pi/weather/data

LOGFILE=$DATADIR/live_logger.log

RUNASUSER=pi

UGID=$(getent passwd $RUNASUSER | cut -f 3,4 -d:) || true

case $1 in

start)

log_daemon_msg "Starting pywws service" "pywws"

if [ -z "$UGID" ]; then

log_failure_msg "user \"$RUNASUSER\" does not exist"

exit 1

fi

$DAEMON -v $DATADIR $LOGFILE start 

status=$?

log_end_msg $status

  ;;

stop)

log_daemon_msg "Stopping pywws service" "pywws"

$DAEMON -v $DATADIR $LOGFILE stop

log_end_msg $?

rm -f $PIDFILE

  ;;

restart|force-reload)

$DAEMON -v $DATADIR $LOGFILE restart

  ;;

try-restart)

if $0 status >/dev/null; then

$0 restart

else

exit 0

fi

;;

reload)

exit 3

;;

status)

status_of_proc $DAEMON "pywws service"

;;

*)

echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|try-restart|force-reload|status}"

exit 2

;;

esac

[Lee H-W]

had to change 

DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/pywws-livelog-daemon.py 

to

DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/pywws-livelog-daemon

for my build, then worked a treat

[Neil Turner]

This worked very well thanks. I had to make the change suggested by Lee H-W removing the .py.   I also had to make the script executable ( sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/pywws-livelog-daemon). Neil

[Ashley Jones]

This si working well for me too. Many thanks for posting Brian.

[Steve Bird]

works well for me with .py removed.

Many thanks

[Brian Orpin]

My guess is that the more recent builds create the file without the '.py' but I could be wrong!