Plex Media Server Init Script

init.plex.sh

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plexmediaserver
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $all
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Plex Media Server
# Description:       Plex is a smart Media Server application for playing Music, Movies and other media
# Author:            Typomedia Foundation
# Version:           1.4
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
NAME=plex
DESC="Plex Media Server"
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/start_pms
PIDFILE=/var/run/plex.pid

export PLEX_RUN_USER="plex"

[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

start_daemon () {
  start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background \
                --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE \
		--chuid $PLEX_RUN_USER \
		--exec $DAEMON
}

stop_daemon () {
	killall -9 "Plex Media Server" >/dev/null 2>&1
	#killall -9 "Plex DLNA Server" >/dev/null 2>&1
}

reload_daemon () {
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal 1 \
        --pidfile $PIDFILE \
        --exec $DAEMON
}

case "$1" in
	start)
		log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
		start_daemon
		log_end_msg 0
		;;
	stop)
		log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
		stop_daemon
		log_end_msg 0
		;;
	reload)
		log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
		reload_daemon
		log_end_msg 0
		;;
	restart|force-reload)
		log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
		stop_daemon
		sleep 1
		start_daemon
		log_end_msg 0
		;;
	status)
		status_of_proc $DAEMON "$DESC" && exit 0 || exit $?
		;;
	*)
		log_action_msg "Usage: service $NAME {start|stop|reload|restart|status}" || true
		exit 2
		;;
esac

exit 0

running with Plex Media Server 0.9.8.14.263-139ddbc_amd64.deb