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How to create debian init.d startup script

From time to time I need to create an init.d startup script for a program that is not part of the default debian distribution. I’ve always found it unnecessarily fiddly to create a new script. The other day I came across naholyr’s gist, a script to make init.d scripts.
There were a few problems with it so I made it into a proper github project and fixed up the problems. The url it was retrieving the service.sh script from was 404, and it wasn’t checking for successful download of the script, so I made it abort if it fails to download.
I couldn’t come up with a decent name for it so its called sample-service-script.
I already had a few pull request to it, yay!


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