CentOS Scrapyd web crawler init script (w/ chkconfig support)

scrapyd

#!/bin/bash
#
# scrapyd           This shell script enables scrapyd server on boot
#
# Author:       Aaron Silber <aaron@brandthropology.com>
#
# chkconfig:    - 50 01
#
# description:  Autostart scrapyd web scraper framework daemon
# processname:  scrapyd
#

# source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0

PID='/var/run/scrapyd.pid'
VIRTUALENV='/usr/local/python27/bin/activate'
OPTIONS='--pidfile='$PID

start() {
        source $VIRTUALENV
        if [ -f $PID ]; then
                echo -n $"Scrapy already running."
                RETVAL=0 
        else
                echo -n $"Attempting to start scrapyd service... "
                scrapyd $OPTIONS &
                RETVAL=$?
        fi
        echo
}

stop() {
        source $VIRTUALENV
        if [ -f $PID ]; then
                echo -n $"Attempting to stop scrapyd service... "
                kill `cat $PID`
                RETVAL=$?
        else
                echo -n $"Scrapyd not running"
                RETVAL=0
        fi
        echo
}

restart() {
        stop
        start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        restart
        ;;
  reload)
        ;;
  status)
        if [ -f $PID ]; then
                echo $"Scrapyd is running."
                RETVAL=0
        else
                echo $"Scrapyd is not running."
                RETVAL=3
        fi
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Hey,
thanks for the script! Did you use it to run scrapyd on centos?
I am struggeling with running scrapyd on centos. I could install and start the scrapyd server, but it is not working to add a scrapy crawler to it. I always get an "scrapy - no active projekt" error. Do you have any experience with running scrapyd on centos?