start-stop-daemon service for ethminer binary

ethminer start-stop-daemon

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ethminer
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $network $named
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $network $named
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: ethminer start-stop-daemon init script
# Description:       This allows you to start/stop ethminer as if it
#                    were a daemon
### END INIT INFO
# Author: Brady Shea <use@github-comments>
# Source: https://gist.github.com/bmatthewshea/9a062c092fd673318f8d208ce44f4f51

set -e
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# Default Settings - Edit /etc/default/ethminer instead: https://gist.github.com/bmatthewshea/be95abefb0d535afeba7aa0cb680fa08

RUNAS="ubuntu"
DAEMON="/opt/miners/ethminer"
GPU="-U"
FARM_RECHECK="200"
WALLET="4e06e4080E6043dfF23c8b634712Aca2e1DE4347"
WORKER="myworkername"
SERVERS="us1.ethermine.org:4444"
FSERVERS="us2.ethermine.org:4444"
STRATUMCLIENT="1"
STRATUMPROTO="0"
LOGFILE="/var/log/miners/ethminer.log"
# pool, proxy, solo :
MINING_MODE="pool"

# For setting user defaults please use this file when possible. If it exists it can override anything above.
# -> https://gist.github.com/bmatthewshea/be95abefb0d535afeba7aa0cb680fa08 for an example.
if [ -r /etc/default/ethminer ]; then
        . /etc/default/ethminer
fi

## DAEMON FLAGS/LINE OPTIONS - USER EDITABLE -> CAREFULLY - "-HWMON" (v13 dev version) can safely be removed if you get error ##
if [ "$MINING_MODE" = "pool" ]; then
  # Running Stratum Pool connection (-S)
  DAEMON_OPTS="$GPU -HWMON --farm-recheck $FARM_RECHECK -SC $STRATUMCLIENT -SP $STRATUMPROTO -S $SERVERS -FS $FSERVERS -O $WALLET.$WORKER"
else
  # Running ETH-PROXY or SOLO mining - Set to farm mode (-F)
  DAEMON_OPTS="$GPU -HWMON --farm-recheck $FARM_RECHECK -SC $STRATUMCLIENT -SP $STRATUMPROTO -F $SERVERS"
fi
## NO USER SETTINGS PAST HERE ##


DESC="ethminer start-stop-daemon init script"
NAME=ethminer
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

start() {
        printf "Starting '$NAME'..."
          start-stop-daemon --chuid $RUNAS --start --quiet --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --background --startas /bin/bash -- -c "exec $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS > $LOGFILE 2>&1"
        sleep 1
        printf "Done."
}

stop () {
        printf "Stopping '$NAME'..."
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE
        sleep 1
        printf "Done."
}

status() {
#  status_of_proc -p /var/run/$NAME.pid "" $NAME && exit 0 || exit $?
   status_of_proc $DAEMON "$NAME"
}

case "$1" in
    start)
    start
  ;;
    stop)
    stop
  ;;
    restart)
    stop
    start
  ;;
    status)
    status
  ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|status}" >&2
    exit 1
  ;;
esac

exit 0

FYI, If one is not using the optional settings, one also has to set the "FSERVERs" variable in the start script, otherwise the ethminer script fails

@aptalca - Thanks. I re-added it. Typo. Better off using the '/etc/default/', file though..

Right before step 5 you say use:
sudo service start ethminer
it should be
sudo service ethminer start

Otherwise, this is great! I did make some modification to my monitor such that it checks temps as well and stops if too hot and restarts if too cold. I found some random errors would not cause the miner to stop writing to the log file, even though it clearly stopped mining and the GPU would get cold.