New service to run fail2rest as a linux service

New service to run fail2rest as a linux service

Make sure to update the DIR=/var/www/fail2rest to wherever fail2rest is installed on the server.

fail2rest_service/fail2rest

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+#!/bin/sh
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          fail2rest
+# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
+# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Short-Description: A rest API for Fail2Ban
+# Description:       A rest API for Fail2Ban
+### END INIT INFO
+
+DIR=/var/www/fail2rest
+DAEMON=$DIR/fail2rest
+DAEMON_NAME=fail2rest
+
+# Add any command line options for your daemon here
+DAEMON_OPTS=""
+
+# This next line determines what user the script runs as.
+# Root generally not recommended but necessary if you are using the Raspberry Pi GPIO from Python.
+DAEMON_USER=root
+
+# The process ID of the script when it runs is stored here:
+PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMON_NAME.pid
+
+. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+
+do_start () {
+    log_daemon_msg "Starting system $DAEMON_NAME daemon"
+    start-stop-daemon --start --background --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile --user $DAEMON_USER --chuid $DAEMON_USER --startas $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
+    log_end_msg $?
+}
+do_stop () {
+    log_daemon_msg "Stopping system $DAEMON_NAME daemon"
+    start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE --retry 10
+    log_end_msg $?
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+
+    start|stop)
+        do_${1}
+        ;;
+
+    restart|reload|force-reload)
+        do_stop
+        do_start
+        ;;
+
+    status)
+        status_of_proc "$DAEMON_NAME" "$DAEMON" && exit 0 || exit $?
+        ;;
+    *)
+        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$DAEMON_NAME {start|stop|restart|status}"
+        exit 1
+        ;;
+
+esac
+exit 0