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.