cowsayd

#!/bin/sh
#
# cowsayd           Start/Stop the cowsayd daemon.
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 60
# description: cowsayd is a minimal telnet server to return a fortune+cowsay cookie and exit
#              Supratim Sanyal - supratim at riseup dot net
#              Copy this to /etc/init.d, chmod +x and chkconfig --add.
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

PIDFILE=/var/run/cowsayd.pid

start() {
        echo -n "Starting cowsayd"
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
                PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
                echo already running: $PID
                exit 2;
        else
                #daemon --user=root --pidfile=$PIDFILE exec /usr/local/bin/cowsayd>/dev/null 2>&1 &
                daemon --check cowsayd --user=root --pidfile=$PIDFILE /usr/local/bin/cowsayd>/dev/null 2>&1 &
                RETVAL=$?
                echo
                [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/cowsayd
                return $RETVAL
        fi

}

stop() {
        echo -n "Shutting down cowsayd"
        echo
        killproc cowsayd
        echo
        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/cowsayd
        return 0
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    status)
        status cowsayd
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage:  {start|stop|status|restart}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit $?