Use daemons uniformly

gistfile1.sh

# Handle the start/stop/restart and reload of daemons uniformly.
# It's able to handle multiple daemons.
start restart stop reload(){
  local daemonPath distro cmd
  if [[ $# -le 0 ]]; then
    echo "Usage: start [restart, stop, reload] DAEMON [DAEMON ...]"
    return 1
  fi
  distro=$(cat /etc/issue)
  case $distro in
          *"Arch Linux"*)
                daemonPath="/etc/rc.d/" ;;
          *"Debian GNU/Linux"*)
                daemonPath="/etc/init.d/" ;;
          *)
                echo "Distro not supported"
                exit 1
  esac
  if [[ $UID = 0 ]]; then
      foreach daemon ($*); do
        $daemonPath$daemon $0
      done
  else
      foreach daemon ($*); do
         cmd="$cmd $daemonPath$daemon $0;"
      done
      su --command="$cmd"
  fi
  unset daemonPath distro
}