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Install & Configure Headless Dropbox as a Service on Ubuntu 12.04 with this `init.d` script.
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#!/bin/sh | |
### BEGIN INIT INFO | |
# Provides: dropbox service | |
# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $remote_fs $syslog | |
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $remote_fs $syslog | |
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 | |
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6 | |
# X-Interactive: false | |
# Short-Desc.: Start dropboxd at boot time | |
# Description: Control dropbox service with the start-stop-daemon | |
### END INIT INFO | |
# Users separated by spaces (or no spaces if only 1 user) | |
DROPBOX_USERS="user1 user2" | |
# Location of daemon | |
DAEMON=.dropbox-dist/dropbox | |
start() { | |
echo "Starting dropbox..." | |
for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do | |
HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6` | |
if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then | |
HOME="$HOMEDIR" start-stop-daemon -b -o -c $dbuser -S -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON | |
fi | |
done | |
} | |
stop() { | |
echo "Stopping dropbox..." | |
for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do | |
HOMEDIR=`getent passwd $dbuser | cut -d: -f6` | |
if [ -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON ]; then | |
start-stop-daemon -o -c $dbuser -K -u $dbuser -x $HOMEDIR/$DAEMON | |
fi | |
done | |
} | |
status() { | |
for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do | |
dbpid=`pgrep -u $dbuser dropbox` | |
if [ -z $dbpid ] ; then | |
echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: not running." | |
else | |
echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: running (pid $dbpid)" | |
fi | |
done | |
} | |
case "$1" in | |
start) | |
start | |
;; | |
stop) | |
stop | |
;; | |
restart|reload|force-reload) | |
stop | |
start | |
;; | |
status) | |
status | |
;; | |
*) | |
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/dropbox {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}" | |
exit 1 | |
esac | |
exit 0 |
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