Redmine (Thin server) init script for Debian. Assumes that Thin is installed into the user's home directory.

redmine

#!/bin/bash

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          redmine
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named $mysql
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named $mysql
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6  
# Short-Description: Start/stop Redmine
### END INIT INFO

dir=/home/redmine
user=redmine
config=/home/redmine/thin.yml

case "$1" in

    'start')
        cd $dir
        sudo -u $user $dir/bin/thin -C $config start
        ;;

    'restart')
        cd $dir
        sudo -u $user $dir/bin/thin -C $config restart
        ;;

    'stop')
        cd $dir
        sudo -u $user $dir/bin/thin -C $config stop
        ;;

    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | restart | stop }"
        ;;

esac