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Ubuntu's /etc/init.d/bitcoin script to run a bitcoin node as daemon/service
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: bitcoin
# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $named $time $syslog
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $named $time $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Description: Bitcoin Fullnode
### END INIT INFO
DATA_DIR=/mnt/volume-nyc1-01/.bitcoin
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="Bitcoin Full node"
NAME=bitcoind
DAEMON=/usr/bin/bitcoind
DAEMON_OPTS="-conf=$DATA_DIR/bitcoin.conf -datadir=$DATA_DIR -txindex -daemon"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
LOGFILE=/var/log/bitcoin.log
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/bitcoin
USER=bitcoin
# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0
# Read configuration variable file if it is present
#[ -r /etc/default/$DESC ] && . /etc/default/$DESC
# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh
VERBOSE=yes
# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
do_stop() {
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
# needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to
# sleep for some time.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
[ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}
do_start() {
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon --chuid $USER --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null || return 1
start-stop-daemon --chuid $USER --start --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS || return 2
}
case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC " "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
status)
status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
restart|force-reload)
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
# 'force-reload' alias
#
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart}" >&2
#echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
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