Redis sentinel init.d script

redis-sentinel.sh

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             redis-sentinel
# Required-Start:       $syslog $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:        $syslog $remote_fs
# Should-Start:         $local_fs
# Should-Stop:          $local_fs
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:         0 1 6
# Short-Description:    redis-sentinel - Failover for Redis
# Description:          redis-sentinel - Failover for Redis
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/redis-sentinel
DAEMON_ARGS="/etc/redis/sentinel.conf"
NAME=redis-sentinel
DESC=redis-sentinel
PIDFILE=/var/run/redis/redis-sentinel.pid

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
        touch $PIDFILE
        chown redis:redis $PIDFILE
        if start-stop-daemon --start --umask 007 --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid redis:redis --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS
        then
                echo "$NAME."
        else
                echo "failed"
        fi
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
        if start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 10 --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
        then
                echo "$NAME."
        else
                echo "failed"
        fi
        rm -f $PIDFILE
        ;;

  restart|force-reload)
        ${0} stop
        ${0} start
        ;;

  status)
        echo -n "$DESC is "
        if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal 0 --name ${NAME} --pidfile ${PIDFILE}
        then
                echo "running"
        else
                echo "not running"
                exit 1
        fi
        ;;

  *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

Note, you to run this successfully, you need couple of entries in your /etc/redis/sentinel.conf file.

daemonize yes
pidfile /var/run/redis/redis-sentinel.pid

And also you might want to add the logfile entry as well

logfile /var/log/redis/redis-sentinel.log

Also ensure that /etc/redis/sentinel.conf ownership is redis:redis

$ sudo chown redis:redis /etc/redis/sentinel.conf