Simple RedHat Redis init.d script

redis-init-rhel

#!/bin/sh
#
# redis        Startup script for Redis Server
#
# chkconfig: - 90 10
# description: Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. 
#
# processname: redis-server
# config: /etc/redis.conf
# pidfile: /var/run/redis.pid
 
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
 
REDISPORT=6379
EXEC=/opt/redis/redis-server
REDIS_CLI=/opt/redis/redis-cli
 
PIDFILE=/var/run/redis.pid
CONF="/opt/redis/redis.conf"
 
case "$1" in
    start)
        if [ -f $PIDFILE ]
        then
                echo -n "$PIDFILE exists, process is already running or crashed\n"
        else
                echo -n "Starting Redis server...\n"
                $EXEC $CONF
        fi
        ;;
    stop)
        if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]
        then
                echo -n "$PIDFILE does not exist, process is not running\n"
        else
		PID=$(cat $PIDFILE)
                echo -n "Stopping ...\n"
				$REDIS_CLI -p $REDISPORT SHUTDOWN
                while [ -x ${PIDFILE} ]
                do
                    echo "Waiting for Redis to shutdown ..."
                    sleep 1
                done
                echo "Redis stopped"
        fi
        ;;
esac

tested not working, PIDFILE is not created

after line 28, echo $! > $PIDFILE will create the PID file.

after line 43, /bin/rm $PIDFILE will remove pdifile.