#!/bin/sh DAEMON="crond" PIDFILE="/var/run/$DAEMON.pid" CROND_ARGS="" # shellcheck source=/dev/null [ -r "/etc/default/$DAEMON" ] && . "/etc/default/$DAEMON" # BusyBox' crond does not create a pidfile, so pass "-f" on the crond # command line and use "--make-pidfile" to instruct start-stop-daemon # to create one. start() { printf 'Starting %s: ' "$DAEMON" # shellcheck disable=SC2086 # we need the word splitting start-stop-daemon --start --background --make-pidfile \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --exec "/usr/sbin/$DAEMON" \ -- -f $CROND_ARGS status=$? if [ "$status" -eq 0 ]; then echo "OK" else echo "FAIL" fi return "$status" } stop() { printf 'Stopping %s: ' "$DAEMON" start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --exec "/usr/sbin/$DAEMON" status=$? if [ "$status" -eq 0 ]; then echo "OK" else echo "FAIL" fi while start-stop-daemon --stop --test --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE" \ --exec "/usr/sbin/$DAEMON"; do sleep 0.1 done rm -f "$PIDFILE" return "$status" } restart() { stop start } case "$1" in start|stop|restart) "$1";; reload) # Restart, since there is no true "reload" feature. restart;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}" exit 1 esac