init.d Script for Trac on Ubuntu Linux

Submitted by David Grant on Fri, 2008-08-29 01:24

I modified an nginx init.d script and created an init.d script for trac.d. I run tracd and then forward traffic from trac.davidgrant.ca to trac's port (using nginx) rather than using cgi or fast-cgi. Please let me know if you have any problems with this scripts and I will fix it.

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          tracd
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the tracd web server
# Description:       starts tracd using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO
 
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/tracd
NAME=tracd
DESC=tracd
#DAEMON_OPTS="-s -r -d -p 8080 --basic-auth=*,/etc/tracd/tracusers,trac /trac"
DAEMON_OPTS="-s -d -p 8000 /home/david/trac --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid"
 
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
 
# Include tracd defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/tracd ] ; then
        . /etc/default/tracd
fi
 
set -e
 
case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
                --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile \
                /var/run/$NAME.pid
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
                /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        echo "$NAME."
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
 
exit 0

After you create the script at /etc/init.d/tracd, don't forget to do the following:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/tracd
sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f tracd defaults

to make the script executable and to make it run on startup.

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motumboe (not verified)

Thu, 2008-12-11 23:16

thank you for sharing it, it works for me too :-)

manat (not verified)

Thu, 2008-12-18 20:00

This works just great. Thanks a lot :)

Anonymous (not verified)

Wed, 2011-07-06 12:02

I used this script and I had to remove the -r in the DAEMON_OPTS (the port 8080 one), to make it work.

ptecza (not verified)

Fri, 2011-12-02 04:14

It's just a script I was looking for, because I'm too lazy admin to write it myself ;) Of course I need to do some customization, for example add a dependency on Nginx, but it's a great start point for me. Thank you very much, David!

Anonymous (not verified)

Sat, 2011-12-31 11:22

Thank you for a straightforward script.

Scott Grodberg (not verified)

Sun, 2013-10-27 17:06

Ubuntu 12.04 here, had to change executable path from /usr/bin/tracd to /usr/local/bin/tracd and hack up my own DAEMON_OPTS but you made it easy for me -- Thank you so much David!

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