Init script for mosquitto (Tested on Ubuntu 14.04)

mosquitto

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          mosquitto
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the mosquitto service
### END INIT INFO


USER="mosquitto"
CONFIG="/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf"
NAME=mosquitto
DAEMON="/usr/sbin/mosquitto"
OPTIONS="-c ${CONFIG}"
PIDFILE="/var/run/${NAME}.pid"

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

do_start() {

    echo "Starting daemon $NAME..."

    start-stop-daemon --start --background \
        --chuid $USER \
        --name $NAME \
        --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE \
        --startas /bin/bash -- -c "exec $DAEMON $OPTIONS 1>/dev/null" || return 2
}

do_stop () {
    echo "Stopping daemon $NAME.."

    start-stop-daemon --stop --signal INT --quiet \
        --chuid $USER \
        --exec $DAEMON --pidfile $PIDFILE --retry 30 \
        --oknodo
    RETVAL="$?"
    sleep 1
    return "$RETVAL"
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        do_start
        ;;
    stop)
        do_stop
        ;;
    restart)
        do_stop
        sleep 5
        do_start
        ;;
    status)
        status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME"
        exit $?
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
esac
exit 0