bash script for Filebrowser on FreeBSD

filebrowser_service.sh

# bash script for FreeBSD that acts as a daemon supporting
# stop/start/restart  for the Filebrowser program
#   - https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser
# drop in /usr/local/bin/ and chmod +x, then use as filebrowser_service stop|start|restart


workdir=/home/nattefrost/
pid_file=/tmp/filebrowser.pid
log_file=/tmp/filebrowser.log


function start_filebrowser {
    local new_pid
    cd "${workdir}" || { echo "Could not cd to ${workdir}"; exit 1; }
    if [ -z "$(ps aux | awk '$11 ~ /^filebrowser$/')" ]
    then
        truncate -s 0 "${log_file}"
        ( filebrowser >> "${log_file}" 2>&1 ) &
        new_pid="${!}"
        echo "${new_pid}" > "${pid_file}"
        echo "Filebrowser started with pid ${new_pid}"
    else
        echo "Filebrowser is already running"
    fi
}

function stop_filebrowser {
    local cur_pid
    test -f ${pid_file} || { echo "pid file not found"; }
    cur_pid="$(cat ${pid_file})"

    echo "Attempting to kill process ${cur_pid}"
    kill -9 "${cur_pid}"
    if [ "${?}" = 0 ]
    then
        echo "Filebrowser service stopped"
        rm "${pid_file}"
    fi
}

function restart_filebrowser {
    stop_filebrowser
    start_filebrowser
}

case "${1}" in
    "stop")
      stop_filebrowser
      ;;
    "start")
      start_filebrowser
      ;;
    "restart")
      restart_filebrowser
      ;;
    *)
      echo "Unknown CLI argument: '${1}'"
      ;;
esac