Dropbox init.d script for Ubuntu 14.04 Server LTS - Dropbox has (recently) changed the CLI daemon from `dropbox` to `dropboxd`.

dropbox

#!/bin/sh

# Usernames who will be using the Dropbox service
DROPBOX_USERS="username"
 
DAEMON=.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
 
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 $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON
    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 -p $HOMEDIR/.dropbox/dropbox.pid
    fi
  done
}
 
status() {
  for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
    dbpid=`pgrep -u $dbuser dropbox`
    if [ -z $dbpid ] ; then
      echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: not running."
    else
      echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: running (pid $dbpid)"
    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

Hello

When running this script on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS following command
/etc/init.d/dropbox status
yields following error:
/etc/init.d/dropbox: 51: [: 302: unexpected operator
dropboxd for USER root: running (pid 302
667)

When dropbox is NOT running, following command:
/etc/init.d/dropbox status
says:
dropboxd for USER root: running (pid 683)
INCORRECT :(

When running with bash:
bash /etc/init.d/dropbox status
I get correct status:
dropboxd for USER root: not running.
CORRECT

is this script actually intended for sh?
I am not familiar with this stuff but according to Stackoverflow.com it would appear that the syntax is rather bash.

@jzaruba this script is definitely just copy-paste from their docs from a year or two ago

You should check out this update here: https://gist.github.com/jaygooby/2948647#gistcomment-1269833