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Libreoffice LSB init script
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup Script for the LibreOffice server. Save it into /etc/init.d/libreoffice
# and install it using `insserv /etc/init.d/libreoffice`.
#
# Copyright (C) 2012 Marcello Barnaba <vjt@openssl.it>
#
# LSB compatible service control script; see http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: libreoffice
# Required-Start: $syslog $remote_fs
# Should-Start: $time
# Required-Stop: $syslog $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: Libreoffice daemon
# Description: Start the Libreoffice Server UNO Python interface
### END INIT INFO
# Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen)
# Note: Special treatment of stop for LSB conformance
OFFICE_BIN=/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin
test -x $OFFICE_BIN || { echo "$OFFICE_BIN not installed";
if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then exit 0;
else exit 5; fi; }
OFFICE_USER="office"
OFFICE_ARGS="--headless --accept=socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;"
. /etc/rc.status
# Reset status of this service
rc_reset
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting LibreOffice server "
/usr/bin/sudo -u $OFFICE_USER /sbin/startproc $OFFICE_BIN $OFFICE_ARGS
# Remember status and be verbose
rc_status -v
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down LibreOffice server "
/usr/bin/sudo -u $OFFICE_USER /sbin/killproc $OFFICE_BIN
rc_status -v
;;
try-restart|condrestart)
## Do a restart only if the service was active before.
if test "$1" = "condrestart"; then
echo "${attn} Use try-restart ${done}(LSB)${attn} rather than condrestart ${warn}(RH)${norm}"
fi
$0 status
if test $? = 0; then
$0 restart
else
rc_reset # Not running is not a failure.
fi
rc_status
;;
restart)
## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
## running or not, start it again.
$0 stop
$0 start
# Remember status and be quiet
rc_status
;;
status)
echo -n "Checking for LibreOffice server "
/usr/bin/sudo -u $OFFICE_USER /sbin/checkproc $OFFICE_BIN
rc_status -v
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|try-restart|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
rc_exit
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