Quick-and-dirty SYSV start script

# insert tags for dependency based boot here

name="FOO"
dir="/usr/local/$name"
pidfile="$dir/var/$name.pid"

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Starting $name "
        $dir/sbin/$name
        ;;
    stop)
        echo "Shutting down $name "
        kill `cat $pidfile`
        #killall $name
        ;;
    restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
    reload)
        echo "HUPing $name"
        kill -1 `cat $pidfile`
        #killall -1 $name
        ;;
    status)
        echo "Checking for service $name "
        ps aux|grep "$name"|grep -v status
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

Tags for Dependency Based Boot

Example for Debian >= 6.0 

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          name
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $local_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog $local_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts name
### END INIT INFO

Example for Redhat, CentOS: 

# chkconfig: 2345 20 80
# description: name

Managing rc Scripts

Start Script (last edited 2011-05-05 09:51:14 by dz)