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

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