/etc/init.d/dropbox

dropbox

# /etc/init.d/dropbox
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          dropbox
# Required-Start:    $network $syslog $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $network $syslog $remote_fs
# Should-Start:      $named $time
# Should-Stop:       $named $time
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start and stop the dropbox daemon for debian/ubuntu
# Description:       Dropbox daemon for linux
### END INIT INFO

DROPBOX_USERS="user1 user2"
start() {
    echo "Starting dropbox..."
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        start-stop-daemon -b -o -c $dbuser -S -x /home/$dbuser/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
    done
}

stop() {
    echo "Stopping dropbox..."
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        start-stop-daemon -o -c $dbuser -K -x /home/$dbuser/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd
    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."
        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

Sorry, but using the user name in a path is wrong on the systems where users not only in /home/.
Maybe using $(getent passwd $DB_USER | cut -d: -f6) will be useful?

PS: Also I am checking existance of .dropbox-dist

PSS: And of course you should change path to the binary in stop function to /.dropbox-dist/dropbox because of shell script in /.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Cheers )

This works great, however once a particular user logs into X it exits their instance of the daemon, requiring them to manually restart Dropbox in the graphical environment. Debian (Jessie)

Is there any way to let it work with service dropbox start?

I think its better to add #!/bin/sh at the beginning of the script to make service dropbox start work. Or use this

https://gist.github.com/mmlion/0e42fc48b640f31e9485ae10d95bcc5d