autossh init script for keeping up a connection to a VPS

sshvps

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:   sshvps
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:  $local_fs $remote_fs
# Should-Start:   $network
# Should-Stop:    $network
# Default-Start:  2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:   0 1 6
# Short-Description:  Tunnel to VPS
# Description:    This runs a script continuously in screen.
### END INIT INFO

case "$1" in

  start)
        echo "Starting sshvps"
        su chris -c "screen -dmS sshvps /usr/lib/autossh/autossh -M 20001 -D 0.0.0.0:11111  me@myvps.mydomain.com"
        ;;
  stop)
        echo "Stopping sshvps"
        PID=`ps -ef | grep autossh | grep 20001 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
        kill -9 $PID
        ;;

  restart|force-reload)
        echo "Restarting sshvps"
        PID=`ps -ef | grep autossh | grep 20001 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
        kill -9 $PID
        sleep 15
        su chris -c "screen -dmS /usr/lib/autossh/autossh -M 20001 -D 0.0.0.0:11111  me@myvps.mydomain.com"
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit 0