Replacement Init Script for memcached on Debian or Ubuntu

This script is a modification of the one for CentOS 5. It starts several instances of memcached listing on a set of sequential ports; the memcached instances started here, and their ports, must be matched in the configuration in settings.php in Drupal / Pressflow.

/etc/init.d/memcached

#! /bin/sh
#

PORT=11211
USER=nobody
MAXCONN=1024
OPTIONS=""
DAEMON=/usr/bin/memcached

RETVAL=0
prog="memcached"

start_instance() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog ($1): "
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/memcached/memcached.$1
.pid --exec $DAEMON -- -d -p $PORT -u $USER  -m $2 -c $MAXCONN -P /var/run/memcache
d/memcached.$1.pid $OPTIONS
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/memcached.$1
        PORT=`expr $PORT + 1`
}

stop_instance() {
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog ($1): "
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/memcached/memc
ached.$1.pid --exec $DAEMON 
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then
            rm -f /var/lock/memcached.$1
            rm -f /var/run/memcached/memcached.$1.pid
        fi
}
start () {
        # insure that /var/run/memcached has proper permissions
        mkdir -p /var/run/memcached
        if [ "`stat -c %U /var/run/memcached`" != "$USER" ]; then
                chown $USER /var/run/memcached
        fi

        start_instance default 64;
        start_instance block 16;
        start_instance content 128;
        start_instance filter 128;
        start_instance form 32;
        start_instance menu 16;
        start_instance page 8;
        start_instance update 8;
        start_instance views 8;
}
stop () {
        stop_instance default;
        stop_instance block;
        stop_instance content;
        stop_instance filter;
        stop_instance form;
        stop_instance menu;
        stop_instance page;
        stop_instance update;
        stop_instance views;
}

restart () {
        stop
        start
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  status)
        status memcached
        ;;
  restart|reload|force-reload)
        restart
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $?