init.d

I'm working on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian running a Node.js app and trying to get it to start when the Pi boots. I found a couple of examples but I can't seem to get it working. My current code is: #! /bin/sh # /etc/init.d/MyApp ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: MyApp.js # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Starts MyApp.js # Description: Start / stop MyApp.js at boot / shutdown. ### END INIT INFO # If you want a command to always run, put it here # Carry out specific functions when asked

I have a Perl script that I want to daemonize. Basically this perl script will read a directory every 30 seconds, read the files that it finds and then process the data. To keep it simple here consider the following Perl script (called synpipe_server, there is a symbolic link of this script in /usr/sbin/ ) : #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $continue = 1; $SIG{'TERM'} = sub { $continue = 0; print "Caught TERM signal\n"; }; $SIG{'INT'} = sub { $continue = 0; print "Caught INT signal\n"; }; my $i = 0; while ($continue) { #do stuff print "Hello, I am running " . ++$i . "\n"; sleep 3;

I am using an init script to run a simple process, which is started with: start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $DAEMONUSER \ --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --background \ --exec $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS The process called $DAEMON usually prints log information to its standard output. As far as I can tell this data is not being stored anywhere. I would like to write or append the stdout of $DAEMON to a file somewhere. The only solution I know is to tell start-stop-daemon to call a shellscript instead of $DAEMON directly; the script then calls $DAEMON and writes to the logfile. But that

Services default to starting as root at boot time on my RHEL box. If I recall correctly, the same is true for other Linux distros which use the init scripts in /etc/init.d . What do you think is the best way to instead have the processes run as a (static) user of my choosing? The only method I'd arrived at was to use something like: su my_user -c 'daemon my_cmd &>/dev/null &' But this seems a bit untidy... Is there some bit of magic tucked away that provides an easy mechanism to automatically start services as other, non-root users? EDIT: I should have said that the processes I'm starting in