Kibana 4 Init script for Amazon Linux

kibana.sh

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          kibana
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Should-Start:      $time
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     3 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: Kibana 4
# Description:       Service controller for Kibana 4
### END INIT INFO

INSTALLED_DIR=/opt/kibana
EXEC_SCRIPT="$INSTALLED_DIR/bin/kibana"
LOG_DIR=/var/log/kibana
PID_DIR=/var/run
PID_FILE="$PID_DIR"/kibana.pid
LOG_FILE="$LOG_DIR"/kibana.log

test -d $LOG_DIR || mkdir $LOG_DIR

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0

case "$1" in
    start)
        if [ ! -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
          echo -n "Starting Kibana"
          nohup $EXEC_SCRIPT 0<&- &> $LOG_FILE &
          echo $! > $PID_FILE
          success
        else
          echo -n "Kibana is already running"
          RETVAL=1
          failure
        fi
        echo
        ;;
    stop)
        if [ -f "$PID_FILE" ]; then
          echo -n "Stopping Kibana"
          test -f $PID_FILE && cat $PID_FILE | xargs kill -s SIGKILL && rm -f $PID_FILE
          success
        else
          echo -n "Kibana is not running"
          RETVAL=1
          failure
        fi
        echo
        ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
    reload)
        $0 restart
        ;;
    status)
        status kibana
        RETVAL=$?
        ;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

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