New argusd startup script

[dan1]

Hello.
I have changed a bit the current argusd file so that it fits for RedHat 8,9, 
RHEL likes systems (CentOS 3+4, ubuntu, and so forth).
It seems to be working well. Could you put that in the distribution ? If you 
do, please don't mention my e-mail.
The name of the script is argusd as it is more common to type 'service 
argusd start'. It allows a restart, querying the status, adds a nice [OK] 
message when ok, and also uses a lockfile so that only one instance can run. 
I don't know if that is a bad idea, but I think it is ok to my point of 
view.
It also allows to use the 'chkconfig' program to turn the service on and off 
at boot-up.
Hope this helps a bit the others.

Best regards,
Daniel

/etc/rc.d/init.d/argusd
--------------------------------

#!/bin/bash

# Argus

# chkconfig: - 88 12
# description: Argus is a tcp/udp monitoring program that allows you to 
watch \
#              the status of several servers and report it as HTML pages.
# processname: argusd
# config: /var/argus/config
# pidfile: /var/run/argusd.pid

# Copyright (c) 2002 by Jeff Weisberg
# Author: Jeff Weisberg <argus @ tcp4me.com>
# Date: 2002-Jun-21 18:43 (EDT)
# Function: argusd startup rc script

# $Id: rc.argusd,v 1.5 2002/11/19 23:42:07 jaw Exp $

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

prog=argusd
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog
RETVAL=0;
start() {
        # ulimit does not have a standard/portable syntax
        # if you need more file descriptors, put the command here
        # eg: ulimit -n 1000

        # since rc files normally run as root, and
        # you may not want argus running as root,
        # to run argus as a certain user or group
        # add  -u user and/or -g group  below

        if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ]; then
                echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
                /usr/local/sbin/argusd
                RETVAL=$?
                if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]; then
                        echo -n "                       [  "
                        echo -en '\E[;32m'"\033[1mOK\033[0m"
                        echo "  ]"
                        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
                else
                        echo -n "                       ["
                        echo -en '\E[;31m'"\033[1mFailed\033[0m"
                        echo "]"
                fi
        else
                echo "Argus is already running..."
        fi
        return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
        /usr/local/sbin/argusctl shutdown reason="argusd stop"
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile

}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    status)
        status argusd
        RETVAL=$?
        exit $RETVAL;
        ;;

    *)
        echo usage: $0 'start|stop|restart|status'
        RETVAL=1
        ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL