Instiki Redhat Init Script

Here is a simple Redhat Linux-compatible (chkconfig) script that you can use to start and stop instiki, and also to make it startup when your system boots (chkconfig --add instiki).

Copy this and put it into a file called: /etc/init.d/instiki

#!/bin/bash
#
# instiki      Start/Stop Instiki.
#
# chkconfig: - 62 38
# description: Instiki is a ruby wiki.
#
# processname: instiki
#
# By: Ryan Dlugosz - [e-mail]
#
# Based on freshclam init by:
# (c) 2004/05/17 [e-mail] under GNU GPL 2.0+
#
# Updated 4/16/2005 to accomodate instiki 0.10.0
#

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

# Get network config
. /etc/sysconfig/network

RETVAL=0

start() {
    echo -n $"Starting instiki: "
    # Start me up!
    daemon --user nobody /usr/local/bin/instiki/instiki --port=2500 --daemon --storage=/usr/local/bin/instiki/storage
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/instiki
    return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping instiki: "
    killproc instiki
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/instiki
    return $RETVAL
}   

restart() {
      stop
    start
}   

reload() {
    stop
    start
}

case "$1" in
  start)
      start
    ;;
  stop)
      stop
    ;;
  status)
    status instiki
    ;;
  restart)
      restart
    ;;
  condrestart)
      [ -f /var/lock/subsys/instiki ] && restart || :
    ;;
  reload)
    reload
    ;;
  *)
    echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|reload}"
    exit 1
esac

exit $?

Next, update the script to make sure your paths to the instiki script are correct. Finally, make the script executable (chmod +x instiki) and test it out (“service instiki start”, etc.). Oh yeah, and make sure your storage directory exists or at least can be created by Instiki itself.

I guess the storage parameter is no longer needed now that Instiki uses Active Record?
Debian Init Script

#! /bin/sh
#
# instiki WEBrick wiki server
#
# Based on:
#
# skeleton    example file to build /etc/init.d/ scripts.
#        This file should be used to construct scripts for /etc/init.d.
#
#        Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[e-mail]>.
#        Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
#        by Ian Murdock <[e-mail]>.
#        Instiki modifications by Ben Armstrong <[e-mail]>.
#
# Version:    @(#)skeleton  1.9.1  08-Apr-2002  [e-mail]
#

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/opt/instiki/instiki
NAME="instiki"
DESC="Instiki WEBrick server"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

USER=instiki
NICE=0

LOGDIR=/var/log/instiki
LOG=$LOGDIR/instiki.log

mkdir -p $LOGDIR
touch $LOG
chown -R $USER $LOGDIR

HOME=`grep $USER /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f6`
STORAGEDIR="$HOME/storage"
ARGS="--daemon --storage $STORAGEDIR"

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
    # FIXME: not good to discard error output
        HOME="$HOME" INSTIKILOG="$LOG" start-stop-daemon --start --background \
        --user $USER --chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE \
        --startas $DAEMON -- $ARGS >/dev/null 2>&1
    echo "."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --user $USER
    echo "."
    ;;
  restart|force-reload)
    echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
    # FIXME: not good to discard error output
        start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --user $USER
        HOME="$HOME" INSTIKILOG="$LOG" start-stop-daemon --start \
        --user $USER --chuid $USER --nicelevel $NICE \
        --startas $DAEMON -- $ARGS >/dev/null 2>&1
    echo "."
    ;;
  *)
    N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
    # echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
    echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0