The attached script was used by the Debian package (which is no longer maintained) to start/stop elogd. I have changed it based on some comments in the forum (see script) to add some more functionality. As there is no mainatined elog package for Debian anymore, I'm placing it here in the hope that it might come in handy for users who want to run elog under Debian.

This script needs to be placed in /etc/init.d and expects elogd to be installed as /usr/sbin/elogd (can be changed, of course).

#!/bin/sh
# Init script for ELOG.
# Copyright © 2003, 2005  Recai Oktaş <roktas@omu.edu.tr>
#
# Additional changes by Thomas Ribbrock <emgaron@ribbrock.org>
# - 2008-11-27: Added better reload functionality, based on suggestion and
#   code from Yoshio Imai as posted in elog forum
#
# Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
# See the file `http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt'.

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/elogd
NAME=elogd
DESC="ELOG daemon"

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

# Admin should be able to lock some options.
if [ -f /etc/default/elog ]; then
	. /etc/default/elog
fi

# To be in the safe side, the followings should be always defined.
PIDFILE=${PIDFILE:-/var/run/$NAME.pid}
CONFFILE=${CONFFILE:-/etc/elog.conf}

# Add the options to argument list only if defined previously.  Since
# some options may also be present in the conffile, we couldn't preset
# those options which would otherwise overwrite the settings in the
# conffile.  Also note that, all have reasonable compiled-in defaults.
ARGS="${PIDFILE+"-f $PIDFILE"}         \
      ${CONFFILE+"-c $CONFFILE"}       \
      ${LOGBOOKDIR+"-d $LOGBOOKDIR"}   \
      ${RESOURCEDIR+"-s $RESOURCEDIR"} \
      ${PORT+"-p $PORT"}               \
      ${HOST+"-n $HOST"}               \
      ${VERBOSE+"-v"}"
      
# Always run as a daemon.
ARGS=`echo $ARGS -D`

case "$1" in
	start)
		echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
			--exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS 2>&1
		sleep 1
		if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && ps h `cat "$PIDFILE"` >/dev/null; then
			echo "$NAME."
		else
			echo "$NAME failed to start; check syslog for diagnostics."
			exit 1
		fi
		;;
	stop)
		echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
		start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
			--exec $DAEMON -- $ARGS 2>&1
		echo "."
		;;
	reload)
		# Send HUP signal to reload config file
		# (Only needed if config is edited manually and not via
		# webinterface)
		if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
			echo -n "$DESC to reread config file ... "
			kill -HUP `cat "$PIDFILE"`
			echo "done"
		else
			echo "No $PIDFILE found!"
		fi
		;;
	restart|force-reload)
		$0 stop
		sleep 1
		$0 start
		if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
			exit 1
		fi
		;;
	*)
		N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
		echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
		exit 1
		;;
esac

exit 0

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