PageKite service script for Raspberry Pi or Banana Pi models

README.md

Replace user with your username and save the file to the location /etc/init.d/ with the name pagekite and give execute permissions on the file chmod +x pagekite

Then execute:

# update-rc.d pagekite defaults

From now on, you can call:

# service pagekite start
# service pagekite stop
# service pagekite restart

to start, stop, and restart the service respectively.

pagekite

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          pagekite
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $named
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $named
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: PageKite service script
# Description:       PageKite script to start at boot automatically
# Author:            Volkan Gezer
# Version:           1.2
### END INIT INFO

USER=root

export USER

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Starting pagekite"
        su $USER -c "pagekite.py --logfile=/var/log/pagekite.log > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
        ;;
    stop)
        echo "Stopping pagekite"
        kill `pgrep pagekite`
        ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
esac

exit 0