Dropbox startup script for Debian (start-stop-daemon). Place it into /etc/init.d/

dropbox

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: dropbox
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# X-Interactive: false
# Short-Description: dropbox service
### END INIT INFO

# Dropbox startup script for Debian (start-stop-daemon). 
# Note that the version is hardcoded into the script, so you have to edit the 20th line when dropbox is updated. 
# The reason for such a blunt behavior — in the way how dropbox daemon runs: it doesn't create a PID file.

#dropbox service
DROPBOX_USERS="dropbox"

DROPBOX_FUCKEDUP_SCRIPT=.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
DROPBOX_FUCKEDUP_DAEMON=.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-3.14.7/dropbox

start() {
   echo "Starting dropbox..."
   for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
       HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6`
       if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then
           HOME="$HOMEDIR" start-stop-daemon -b -o -c $dbuser -S -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DROPBOX_FUCKEDUP_SCRIPT
       fi
   done
}

stop() {
   echo "Stopping dropbox..."
   for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
       HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6`
       if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then
           start-stop-daemon -o -c $dbuser -K -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DROPBOX_FUCKEDUP_DAEMON
       fi
   done
}

status() {
   for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
       HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6`
       if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then
          start-stop-daemon -o -c $dbuser -T -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DROPBOX_FUCKEDUP_DAEMON
          status=$?
          echo -n "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: "
          case "$status" in
             0) echo "running."
                ;;
             1|3) echo "not running."
                ;;
             *) echo " error while determing state."
                ;;
           esac
       fi
   done
}
   
case "$1" in
   
   start)
       start
       ;;
   stop)
       stop
       ;;
   restart|reload|force-reload)
       stop
       start
       ;;
   status)
       status
       ;;
   *)
       echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/dropbox {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}"
       exit 1
       
esac
       
exit 0

Hey thanks for this, but I'm somewhat of a newb to this stuff with init.d (mostly use upstart) and I'm not a seasoned linux guy. When I test this it says permission denied....i've change the user to my admin user, but maybe this is wrong to do. Trying it with the dropbox user you have in the script gives the same result. So somewhere along the line I don't have the correct permissions...any help narrowing that down is appreciated. Thanks!

Also should I un-comment all the init info lines? thanks again.

Hi, please disregard, i found this instead and it works perfectly for me.... https://github.com/zzolo/dropbox-upstart