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#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: emacs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
# Description: This file should be placed in /etc/init.d.
### END INIT INFO
USERNAME=emacs
DESC="Run the emacs daemon."
NAME=emacs
USERHOME=/home/$USERNAME
HOMEDIR=$USERHOME/emacs
DAEMON=$HOMEDIR/bin/$NAME
DAEMONNAME=server
DAEMON_ARGS="--daemon=$DAEMONNAME"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
VERBOSE="no"
EMACSUID=`awk -F: "\\$1 ~ /$USERNAME/ {print \\$3}" /etc/passwd`
EMACSCLIENT="sudo -u $USERNAME $HOMEDIR/bin/emacsclient -s /tmp/${USERNAME}${EMACSUID}/$DAEMONNAME"
EVALEXIT="(progn (setq kill-emacs-hook nil) (kill-emacs))"
# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0
# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon -u $USERNAME -c $USERNAME -d $USERHOME \
--start --quiet \
--exec $DAEMON \
--test > /dev/null || return 1
# Test directly with emacs
$EMACSCLIENT -e '(emacs-pid)' > /dev/null 2>&1
[ $? -eq 0 ] && return 1
# Start the deamon
#
# NOTE: you cannot use start-stop-daemon for this because
# emacs ends up with a root-owned user-init-file
sudo su -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS" - $USERNAME
ret=$?
[ $ret -ne 0 ] && return 2
return 0
}
#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
$EMACSCLIENT --eval "$EVALEXIT" > /dev/null 2>&1
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
[ -f $PIDFILE ] && start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
# needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to
# sleep for some time.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
[ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}
#
# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
#
do_reload() {
#
# If the daemon can reload its configuration without
# restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
# then implement that here.
#
start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
return 0
}
do_status() {
# Test the daemon with emacs
$EMACSCLIENT -e '(emacs-pid)' > /dev/null
return $?
}
do_eval() {
# Test the daemon with emacs
$EMACSCLIENT -e '(emacs-pid)' > /dev/null
[ $? -ne 0 ] && return 1
$EMACSCLIENT -e "$*"
}
do_install() {
# Test the daemon with emacs
$EMACSCLIENT -e '(emacs-pid)' > /dev/null
[ $? -ne 0 ] && return 1
$EMACSCLIENT -e "(package-install (quote $1))"
}
case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != "no" ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
ret=$?
[ $ret -eq 2 ] && log_end_msg 1
exit 0
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != "no" ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
restart|force-reload)
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
# 'force-reload' alias
#
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
status)
do_status > /dev/null 2>&1
ret=$?
case "$ret" in
0)
echo "emacs is running"
;;
*)
echo "no emacs"
;;
esac
[ $ret -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
;;
e|eval)
shift
do_eval $*
ret=$?
[ $ret -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
;;
install|package-install)
shift
do_install $*
ret=$?
[ $ret -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
;;
*)
#echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
# End
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