Init script for sysv-init based systems. (#1)

[no-systemd]

Init script for sysv-init based systems.

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[drakkan]

Thanks for the contribution. I believe this works on Debian-based distributions, but—even though I haven't tested it—I'm fairly certain it wouldn't work on something like Slackware.

We can also merge the PR as-is and address any issues with non-systemd-based distributions if they arise in future contributions. However, please move the script to the /init directory. Thank you

[no-systemd]

I guess I had an issue with placing the pid file in "/run". But since "/var/lib/sftpgo" has the correct permissions, and since that is done by either the debian sftpgo package or by sftpgo binary itself, i just placed everything there, to not have the init script doing any of that. (creating files/directories, setting permissions ... etc). But i understand there is that LSB. So if you wanted everything to go to its LSB place, i could work on that! It is a minmalist script just to get up and running on sysvinit. So let me please know! Have a great day!

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+# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog +# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog +# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 +# Default-Stop: +# Short-Description: SFTPGo server +### END INIT INFO

+set -e + +# /etc/init.d/sftpgo: start and stop the SFTPGo "server" daemon + +SFTPGO_USER="sftpgo" +SFTPGO_GROUP="sftpgo" +SFTPGO_BIN_NAME="sftpgo" +SFTPGO_BIN="/usr/bin/sftpgo" +SFTPGO_PID="/var/lib/sftpgo/sftpgo.pid"

I think this should be /run/sftpgo.pid

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[drakkan]

@no-systemd It should be fine as it was merged. I have tested in on Devuan, see here:

root@devuan:~# /etc/init.d/sftpgo start
Starting SFTPGo server: sftpgo.
root@devuan:~# /etc/init.d/sftpgo status
sftpgo is running.
root@devuan:~# ls -la /run/sftpgo.pid 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jul  4 11:12 /run/sftpgo.pid
root@devuan:~# ps -ef | grep sftpgo
sftpgo    2380     1  0 11:12 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/sftpgo serve -c /etc/sftpgo --config-file sftpgo.json
root      2394  2301  0 11:12 pts/1    00:00:00 grep sftpgo
root@devuan:~# /etc/init.d/sftpgo stop
Stopping SFTPGo server: sftpgo.
root@devuan:~# /etc/init.d/sftpgo status
sftpgo is not running ... failed!

The init script runs as the root user, so the PID file can be written to /run, which is a tmpfs that is automatically cleaned up after a reboot.

Let me know if you find any issues and thanks for the contribution!