Description:
It should be nice to have some simple way to define deamons... i was creating rc.d entry for my favorite daemon and i realized that lot of lines are the same in all files... and there are only 3 or 4 differences in most of daemons:

daemonid="miredo" #arch-style daemon identification
binary="/usr/local/sbin/miredo" #daemon binary
pidfile="/var/run/$daemonid.pid" #maybe you don't need to change this...
description="Miredo IPv6 Tunnel Daemon" #daemon description...

so i think, there should be some daemon adding way which is keeping arch simplicity. maybe file with one daemon per line?
like: sudo /rc.d/daemon something start/stop

all of these scripts are basicaly used to start and kill services... so why do not use some simmilar system like PKGBUILDs for it? maybe there should be some more functions in configuration file like pre_start(), post_start(), pre_stop() and post_stop() to use with services, which need something special to be done before/after...


here is my sample script (but as i said, it could be done much simplier way)
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#!/bin/bash
#universal daemon controller
# general config
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

daemonid="miredo" #arch-style daemon identification
binary="/usr/local/sbin/miredo" #daemon binary
pidfile="/var/run/$daemonid.pid" #maybe you don't need to change this...
description="Miredo IPv6 Tunnel Daemon" #daemon description...

PID=`pidof -o %PPID "$binary"`

case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting $description"
[ -z "$PID" ] && "$binary" 2>&1
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
add_daemon "$daemonid"
stat_done
fi
;;
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping $description"
[ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &>/dev/null
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
rm_daemon "$daemonid"
rm -f "$pidfile"
stat_done
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac