This gist starts/stops hubot on a Linux system

hubot.sh

#!/bin/bash
#https://gist.github.com/febuiles/1394520
 
# This assumes you have:
# 1) A user called `hubot` in charge of the bot.
# 2) A file called /home/hubot/.hubotrc that contains the Hubot credentials.
#
# To set the adapter either edit bin/hubot to specify what you want or append
# `-- -a campfire` to the $DAEMON variable below.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hubot
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the hubot service
# Description:       starts the Hubot bot for the HipChat rooms
### END INIT INFO
 
PATH=/home/hubot/myhubot/node_modules:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME="myhubot"
HUBOT_HOME="/home/hubot/myhubot"
LOGFILE="/var/log/hubot/hubot.log"
PIDFILE="/var/run/hubot.pid"
DAEMON='/usr/local/bin/npm_exec hubot -a hipchat -n myhubot'
PID=`ps -ef |grep hubot |grep coffee|grep -v grep | grep -v bash |awk -F ' ' '{print $2}'`
 
set -e
 
case "$1" in
  start)
        if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
          echo -n "Starting $NAME: "
          cd $HUBOT_HOME
          . /home/hubot/myhubot/.hubotrc
          $DAEMON 1> $LOGFILE & 2>&1 
          echo "Starting"
        else
          echo "process $NAME currently start"
        fi
        ;;

  stop)
        echo "Stopping $NAME: "
        if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
          echo "No processes to kill" >> $LOGFILE 
          exit 0
        else
          echo "$PID" > $PIDFILE
          for i in $PID;do
            echo "Killing process $PID" >> $LOGFILE
            kill $i
          done
        fi
        ;;

  status)
        if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
          echo "No processes started"
        else
          echo "Process ID: $PID"
        fi
        ;;
 
   restart)
        echo "Restarting $NAME: "
        echo "$PID" > $PIDFILE
        for i in $PID;do
          echo "Killing process $PID" >> $LOGFILE
          kill $i
        done
        . /home/hubot/myhubot/.hubotrc
        cd $HUBOT_HOME
        $DAEMON 1> $LOGFILE & 2>&1
        echo "Starting $NAME:"
        ;;
 
    *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;  
    esac
    exit