forever init.d example

forever-initd-example.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# initd-example      Node init.d 
#
# chkconfig: 345 80 20
# description: Node init.d example
# processname: node
# pidfile: /var/run/initd-example.pid
# logfile: /var/log/initd-example.log
#

# Source function library.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

NAME=initd-example                  # Unique name for the application
NODE_ENV=production                 # Node environment
PORT=1234                           # Port (in this case the application uses process.env.PORT to set the port)
INSTANCE_DIR=/var/www/$NAME         # Location of the application source
COMMAND=coffee                      # Command to run
SOURCE_NAME=app.coffee              # Name os the applcation entry point script

user=apache
pidfile=/var/run/$NAME.pid
logfile=/var/log/$NAME.log
forever_dir=/var/run/forever        # Forever root directory.

node=node
forever=forever
awk=awk
sed=sed

start() {
    echo "Starting $NAME node instance: "

    if [ "$id" = "" ]; then
        # Create the log and pid files, making sure that the target use has access to them
        touch $logfile
        chown $user $logfile

        touch $pidfile
        chown $user $pidfile

        # Launch the application
        start_daemon
            $forever start -p $forever_dir --pidFile $pidfile -l $logfile -a -d $INSTANCE_DIR -c $COMMAND $SOURCE_NAME
        RETVAL=$?
    else
        echo "Instance already running"
        RETVAL=0
    fi
}

restart() {
    echo -n "Restarting $NAME node instance : "
    if [ "$id" != "" ]; then
        $forever restart -p $forever_dir $id
        RETVAL=$?
    else
        start
    fi
}

stop() {
    echo -n "Shutting down $NAME node instance : "
    if [ "$id" != "" ]; then
        $forever stop -p $forever_dir $id
    else
        echo "Instance is not running";
    fi
    RETVAL=$?
}

getForeverId() {
    local pid=$(pidofproc -p $pidfile)
    $forever list -p $forever_dir | $sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9; ]*m//g' | $awk "\$6 && \$6 == \"$pid\" { gsub(/[\[\]]/, \"\", \$2); print \$2; }";
}
id=$(getForeverId)

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    status)
        status -p ${pidfile}
        ;;
    restart)
        restart
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage:  {start|stop|status|restart}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

For what it worth, I had to add --sourceDir in between -d and $INSTANCE_DIR for this to work: -d --sourceDir $INSTANCE_DIR

Great script by the way!

Yeah, the -d option switches on debug output, so you probably want to remove it altogether. I guess jinze thought this to be the source directory option.

$awk "$6 && $6 == "$pid" { gsub(/[[]]/, "", $2); print $2; }";

this regex not correct grep forever id from forever list string.
0.10.8

Late comment but as xiaods said your regex to get forever id doesn't works so I must find a trick, maybe it will help someone :

getForeverId() {
    ps -eo pid,command | grep "$INSTANCE_DIR/$SOURCE_NAME" | grep -v grep | awk "{print \$1;}"
} 

Btw thanks for this script works awesome for other functions.

Despite of above modification, the forever Id Not Found error still exists in Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.
Hopefully recent forever, v0.15.3, supports PID as a command argument. No needs to find correspondent Id by PID.
Modified script:

getForeverId() {  
  local pid=$(pidofproc -p $pidfile $NAME)  
  echo $pid  
}