ZNC IRC Bouncer start up script.

Wed Apr 21 12:52:16 EDT 2010

A few weeks a go I published an article about how to have push notifications to your iPhone from an IRC channel events. After installing and configuring ZNC I was a bit disappointed that it didn't had a start up script so I decided to write one.

This script allows you to start, stop, reload the configuration and restart the service. lets take a look at /etc/init.d/zncd

 
#!/bin/bash
 
 ZNC_FOLDER="/usr/bin"
 ZNC_OWNR="your_user_here"
 
 if [ ! -f $ZNC_FOLDER/znc -o ! -d $ZNC_FOLDER ]
 then
 echo "ZNC startup: cannot start, it appears that it is not installed"
 exit 1
 fi
 
 case "$1" in
 start)
 echo -n "Starting ZNC: "
 su - $ZNC_OWNR -c "$ZNC_FOLDER/znc"
 touch /var/lock/subsys/ZNC
 echo "OK"
 ;;
 stop)
 echo -n "Shutdown ZNC: "
 kill -9 `ps -C znc | awk '{print $1}' | grep ^[0-9]`
 rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ZNC
 echo "OK"
 ;;
 reload)
 echo -n "Reloading ZNC:"
 kill -HUP `ps -C znc | awk '{print $1}' | grep ^[0-9]`
 echo "OK"
 ;;
 status)
 if ps -C znc > /dev/null
 then 
 echo "ZNC Bouncer is running"
 else 
 echo "ZNC Bouncer is not running"
 fi
 ;;
 restart)
 $0 stop
 sleep 2
 $0 start
 ;;
 *)
 echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|reload|status"
 exit 1
 esac
 exit 0

If your NSLU2 is running gentoo you could add it to the default run level like this:

 
rc-update add zncd default

The output should be something like this:

 * zncd added to runlevel default

Spanish version: script de arranque para ZNC bouncer.