Post: System V with forever for your node.js application

service.sh

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: your_application
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# X-Interactive: false
# Short-Description: your fancy description that no one will see ;)
# Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be placed in /etc/init.d.
#
### END INIT INFO

# Only start is supported here
# To manager your_application, use forever
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting your_application"
    echo "[`date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%T.%3NZ`] (sys) Starting" >> /home/user/path/to/server/syslog 2>&1
    sudo -u user -i NODE_ENV=production forever start /home/user/path/to/server >> /home/user/path/to/server/syslog 2>&1
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/start start"
    echo "       forever {stop|restart}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0