CentOS init script for the ghost blogging platform

ghost.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# ghost - this script starts the ghost blogging package
#
# chkconfig:   - 95 20
# description: ghost is a blogging platform built using javascript \
#              and running on nodejs
# 

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 0

home="/home/ghost/ghost-0.3.3/"
exec="/usr/bin/node index.js >> /home/ghost/ghost.log &"
prog="ghost"

[ -e /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog

start() {
    #[ -x $exec ] || exit 5
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
    # if not running, start it up here, usually something like "daemon $exec"
    export NODE_ENV=production
    cd $home
    daemon --user=ghost $exec
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
    return $retval
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
    # stop it here, often "killproc $prog"
    pid=`ps -u $prog -fw | grep $prog | grep -v " grep " | awk '{print $2}'`
    kill -9 $pid > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo_success || echo_failure
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
    return $retval
}

restart() {
    stop
    start
}

my_status() {
        local base pid lock_file=

        base=${1##*/}

        # get pid
        pid=`ps -u $prog -fw | grep $prog | grep -v " grep " | awk '{print $2}'`

        if [ -z "${lock_file}" ]; then
        lock_file=${base}
        fi
        # See if we have no PID and /var/lock/subsys/${lock_file} exists
        if [[ -z "$pid" && -f /var/lock/subsys/${lock_file} ]]; then
                echo $"${base} dead but subsys locked"
                return 2
        fi

        if [ -z "$pid" ]; then
                echo $"${base} is stopped"
                return 3
        fi

        if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
                echo $"${base} (pid $pid) is running..."
                return 0
        fi

}

rh_status() {
    # run checks to determine if the service is running or use generic status
    my_status $prog
}

rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}



case "$1" in
    start)
        rh_status_q && exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    stop)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    restart)
        $1
        ;;
    status)
        rh_status
        ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 2
esac
exit $?

Great! Thank you for this gist!

to add script execution at start time:
sudo chkconfig --level 345 ghost on

Set up this script and now I see garbage written in place of it:

/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,rootcontext="system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0" 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw 0 0

and a bunch of NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL

Maybe I configured it to dump some sort of log info into itself lol

It used to work just fine for a little white, and executed fine on boot as well.