Using git-daemon with sysV init in place of git-daemon-run

When I first setup our debian git-daemon I noticed this dependency for git-daemon-run called runit, and runit is evil and full of hate, so I created a way to use existing /etc/init.d/ system to run the daemon, just change the settings to match your system and put the files in place.

First remove git-daemon-run if you have it installed apt-get remove git-daemon-run Then create the files below, then do this: chmod +x /etc/init.d/git-daemon /etc/init.d/git-daemon start and your good to go. Contents of files follow.

/etc/init.d/git-daemon

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: git-daemon
# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: git-daemon service
# Description: git-daemon makes git repositories available via the git
# protocol.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Benjamin Graham <bman@duuit.com>

# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/git-core
DESC="git-daemon service"
NAME=git-daemon
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Fallback options values, we use these when
# the /etc/default/git-daemon file does not exist
RUN=no
USER=git
GROUP=git
REPOSITORIES="/home/git/repositories/"

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# If ADVANCED_OPTS is empty, use a default setting
if [ "x$ADVANCED_OPTS" == "x" ];
then
ADVANCED_OPTS="--base-path=$REPOSITORIES $REPOSITORIES"
fi

DAEMON_ARGS="--syslog --reuseaddr \
$ADVANCED_OPTS"


# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions


#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --background --make-pidfile -- \
$DAEMON_ARGS \
|| return 2


return 0
}


#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
# needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to
# sleep for some time.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
[ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}


case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
status)
status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
restart|force-reload)
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
# 'force-reload' alias
#
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;


esac

/etc/default/git-daemon

# Defaults for the git-daemon initscript


# Set to yes to start git-daemon
RUN=yes


# Set to the user and group git-daemon should run as
USER=git
GROUP=git


# Set the base path and the directory where the repositories are.
REPOSITORIES="/home/git/repositories/"


# Provide a way to have custom setup.
#
# Note, when ADVANCED_OPTS is defined the REPOSITORIES setting is ignored,
# so take good care to specify exactly what git-daemon have to do.
#
# Here is an example from the man page:
#ADVANCED_OPTS="--verbose --export-all \
# --interpolated-path=/pub/%IP/%D \
# /pub/192.168.1.200/software \
# /pub/10.10.220.23/software"
ADVANCED_OPTS="/usr/lib/git-core/git-daemon \ 
--verbose --base-path=/home/git/repositories \
 /home/git/repositories"

Hope this helps others as well.