CentOS's memcached init script, modified to support running socket-based user-specific instance

memcached-$USER

#! /bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 55 45
# description:	The memcached daemon is a network memory cache service.
# processname: memcached
# pidfile: /var/run/memcached-$USER/memcached.pid

# Standard LSB functions
#. /lib/lsb/init-functions

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

PORT=11211
USER=yourusernamegoeshere
MAXCONN=1024
CACHESIZE=64
OPTIONS="-s /home/$USER/memcached.sock"

# Check that networking is up.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

if [ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ]
then
	exit 0
fi

RETVAL=0
prog="memcached-$USER"

start () {
	echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
	# insure that /var/run/memcached-$USER has proper permissions
    if [ "`stat -c %U /var/run/memcached-$USER`" != "$USER" ]; then
        chown $USER /var/run/memcached-$USER
    fi

	daemon --pidfile /var/run/memcached-$USER/memcached.pid memcached -d -p $PORT -u $USER  -m $CACHESIZE -c $MAXCONN -P /var/run/memcached-$USER/memcached.pid $OPTIONS
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/memcached-$USER
}
stop () {
	echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
	killproc -p /var/run/memcached-$USER/memcached.pid /usr/bin/memcached
	RETVAL=$?
	echo
	if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then
	    rm -f /var/lock/subsys/memcached-$USER
	    rm -f /var/run/memcached-$USER/memcached.pid
	fi
}

restart () {
        stop
        start
}


# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
	start
	;;
  stop)
	stop
	;;
  status)
	status -p /var/run/memcached-$USER/memcached.pid memcached-$USER
	;;
  restart|reload|force-reload)
	restart
	;;
  condrestart)
	[ -f /var/lock/subsys/memcached-$USER ] && restart || :
	;;
  *)
	echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload|condrestart}"
	exit 1
esac

exit $?