title: Success with start-stop-daemon and mono-service2?
body: <p>Has anyone had any success using start-stop-daemon and mono-service2 together?  I've been fighting this for a few days now and have gotten various bits to work, but have had no success in getting a fully functional init script for a mono service.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what I have learned to date:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>The mono or mono-service exe must be named as the variable DAEMON (you can't list your exe as the DAEMON)</p></li>
  <li><p>You must use the --background flag ... otherwise when this script is executed from a package installer (deb in my case). The service terminiates when the installer ends (has something to do with how the installer forks processes ... I havent investigated this much).</p></li>
  <li><p>I have had success with listing the pid file with the mono-service flag in other scripts and using it to stop the daemon, but for some reason it doesnt work here.  As such the script below does not stop the service - not sure why.  Start works fine.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>And here is my partially functional init script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#! /bin/sh
  ### BEGIN INIT INFO
  # Provides:          ServiceName
  # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
  # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
  # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
  # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
  # Short-Description: Starts and Stops Service
  # Description:       Service start|stop|restart
  ### END INIT INFO
  
  # Author: Author
  #
  
  # Do NOT "set -e"
  
  # PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
  PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
  DESC="Description of the service"
  NAME=Service.exe
  DAEMONNAME=ServiceDaemon.sh
  INSTALLDIR=/usr/sbin/
  DAEMON=/usr/bin/mono-service2
  EXENAME=Service.exe
  PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMONNAME.pid
  DAEMON_ARGS=" -l:$PIDFILE $INSTALLDIR/$EXENAME"
  #DAEMON_ARGS=" $INSTALLDIR/$EXENAME"
  SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$DAEMONNAME
  
  # Exit if the package is not installed
  [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0
  
  # Read configuration variable file if it is present
  [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] &amp;&amp; . /etc/default/$NAME
  
  # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
  . /lib/init/vars.sh
  
  # Define LSB log_* functions.
  # Depend on lsb-base (&gt;= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
  . /lib/lsb/init-functions
  
  #
  # Function that starts the daemon/service
  #
  do_start()
  {
   # Return
   #   0 if daemon has been started
   #   1 if daemon was already running
   #   2 if daemon could not be started
   start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec $DAEMON --test &gt; /dev/null \
    || return 1
   start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --exec $DAEMON -- \
    $DAEMON_ARGS \
    || return 2
   # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
   # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
   # on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.
  }
  
  #
  # Function that stops the daemon/service
  #
  do_stop()
  {
   # Return
   #   0 if daemon has been stopped
   #   1 if daemon was already stopped
   #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
   #   other if a failure occurred
   start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --name $NAME
   RETVAL="$?"
   [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] &amp;&amp; return 2
   # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
   # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
   # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
   # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
   # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
   # sleep for some time.
   start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
   [ "$?" = 2 ] &amp;&amp; return 2
   # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
   rm -f $PIDFILE
   return "$RETVAL"
  }
  
  #
  # Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
  #
  do_reload() {
   #
   # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
   # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
   # then implement that here.
   #
   start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
   return 0
  }
  
  case "$1" in
    start)
   [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &amp;&amp; log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
   do_start
   case "$?" in
    0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &amp;&amp; log_end_msg 0 ;;
    2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &amp;&amp; log_end_msg 1 ;;
   esac
   ;;
    stop)
   [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &amp;&amp; log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
   do_stop
   case "$?" in
    0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &amp;&amp; log_end_msg 0 ;;
    2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] &amp;&amp; log_end_msg 1 ;;
   esac
   ;;
    status)
         status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" &amp;&amp; exit 0 || exit $?
         ;;
    #reload|force-reload)
   #
   # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out
   # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.
   #
   #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
   #do_reload
   #log_end_msg $?
   #;;
    restart|force-reload)
   #
   # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
   # 'force-reload' alias
   #
   log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
   do_stop
   case "$?" in
     0|1)
    do_start
    case "$?" in
     0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
     1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
     *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
    esac
    ;;
     *)
      # Failed to stop
    log_end_msg 1
    ;;
   esac
   ;;
    *)
   #echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" &gt;&amp;2
   echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" &gt;&amp;2
   exit 3
   ;;
  esac
  
  :
  </code></pre>