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Dropbox init.d script for Ubuntu 14.04 Server LTS - Dropbox has (recently) changed the CLI daemon from `dropbox` to `dropboxd`.
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#!/bin/sh | |
# Usernames who will be using the Dropbox service | |
DROPBOX_USERS="username" | |
DAEMON=.dropbox-dist/dropboxd | |
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 -p $HOMEDIR/.dropbox/dropbox.pid | |
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 |
@jzaruba this script is definitely just copy-paste from their docs from a year or two ago
You should check out this update here: https://gist.github.com/jaygooby/2948647#gistcomment-1269833
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Hello
When running this script on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS following command
/etc/init.d/dropbox status
yields following error:
/etc/init.d/dropbox: 51: [: 302: unexpected operator
dropboxd for USER root: running (pid 302
667)
When dropbox is NOT running, following command:
/etc/init.d/dropbox status
says:
dropboxd for USER root: running (pid 683)
INCORRECT :(
When running with bash:
bash /etc/init.d/dropbox status
I get correct status:
dropboxd for USER root: not running.
CORRECT
is this script actually intended for sh?
I am not familiar with this stuff but according to Stackoverflow.com it would appear that the syntax is rather bash.