Auto staring PlexConnect on CentOS

With AppleTV 4 we are getting a native Plex client, but some people are still using PlexConnect as it works, and is very stable.

Some time ago I create a very simple init script to start, stop and update PlexConnect:

#!/bin/sh
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: PlexConnect
# Required-Start: $network $local_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts PlexConnect
# Description: starts PlexConnect
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/PlexConnect ] ; then
 echo "/etc/sysconfig/PlexConnect missing!"
 exit 0;
fi

. /etc/sysconfig/PlexConnect

## Variables
#USER=root
#PROG=PlexConnect
#LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/$PROG
#HOMEDIR=/srv/$PROG
#PIDFILE=/var/run/$PROG.pid
#PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python2.7

start() {
 # Check for already running
 if status $PROG > /dev/null ; then
 echo "$PROG (pid `pidofproc -p $PIDFILE $PROG`) is running..."
 exit 0;
 fi
 # Start daemon.
 echo -n "Starting $PROG: "
 cd $HOMEDIR
 screen -dmS $PROG $PYTHON $PROG.py $OPTIONS
 RETVAL=$?
 if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then
 PID=`screen -ls | grep PlexConnect | awk -F'.' '{print $1}' | tr -d '\t'`
 echo $PID > $PIDFILE
 log_success_msg ""
 else
 log_failure_msg ""
 fi
 [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch $LOCKFILE
 return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
 echo -n $"Shutting down $PROG: "
 killproc -p $PIDFILE $PYTHON
 RETVAL=$?
 if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then
 log_success_msg ""
 else
 log_failure_msg ""
 fi
 [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f $LOCKFILE
 return $RETVAL
}

update() {
 echo "Updating $PROG"
 cd $HOMEDIR
 git pull 
}


# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
 start)
 start
 ;;
 stop)
 stop
 ;;
 status)
 status $PROG
 ;;
 restart|force-reload)
 stop
 start
 ;;
 try-restart|condrestart)
 if status $PROG > /dev/null; then
 stop
 start
 fi
 ;;
 update)
 RESTART="FALSE"
 if status $PROG > /dev/null; then
 stop
 RESTART="TRUE"
 fi
 update
 if [ "$RESTART" = "TRUE" ] ; then
 start
 fi
 ;;
 reload)
 exit 3
 ;;
 *)
 echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|try-restart|force-reload|update}"
 exit 2
esac

It will require /etc/sysconfig/PlexConnect:

# PlexConnect Settings
USER=root
PROG=PlexConnect
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/$PROG
HOMEDIR=/srv/$PROG
PIDFILE=/var/run/$PROG.pid
PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python2.7
OPTIONS=""

(PlexConnect like Python 2.7)

Could probably be made smarter, but it works for me.