#The script to start Red 5 Tapas Mishra
##Begin some thing some thing
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Red5
# Required-Start: No idea
# Required-Stop: No idea
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Red5 Streaming Server
# Description: Ubuntu init script for Red5 server
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON="/opt/red5/dist/red5.sh"
NAME="Red5"
RED5_HOME=/opt/red5/dist
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
DESC="Tapas Red5 Server"
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
set -e
PROCESS_DIR="/opt/red5/dist"
case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--chdir $RED5_HOME --background --make-pidfile \
--exec $DAEMON
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--name java
rm -f $PIDFILE
log_end_msg $?
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--name java
rm -f $PIDFILE
sleep 1
echo -e
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
This is my script for starting and stopping Red5 on Ubuntu in case you want to have some thing else here are good sources
http://code.google.com/p/red5/source/browse/build/debian/trunk/red5.init
http://osflash.org/pipermail/red5_osflash.org/2009-July/034753.html
