Linux Start and Stop scripts for Ventrilo - Ubuntu and Debian

My cousin wanted to have his own Ventrilo server so I set it up for him on a old PC running Ubuntu 9.04. He didn't want to have to start or stop the server just wanted to be able to leave the machine on all the time and if it did happen to be turned off wanted it to start automatically.

Here is the process:

Create a new user on your system to run the process as. I called the user ventrilo.

Create a new script in init.d

vi /etc/init.d/vent

Add the following:

#!/bin/sh
# ventrilo server

case "$1" in
'start')
# Startup ventrilo servers.

VENPATH=/home/ventsrv
VENBIN=$VENPATH/ventrilo_srv

su ventrilo -c "$VENBIN -f$VENPATH/ventrilo_srv -d"

renice -5 `cat $VENPATH/ventrilo_srv.pid` ;;
'stop')
killall ventrilo_srv
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
;;
esac
exit 0

Make sure you set the path correctly ie:

VENPATH=/home/ventsrv

Make the new script executable.

chmod +x /etc/init.d/vent

Run:

update-rc.d vent defaults

And reboot the server to confirm ventrilo starts on boot.

You can now stop and start your ventrilo server like so:

Start:

/etc/init.d/vent start

Stop:

/etc/init.d/vent stop