Listing 1. oftpd init Script for Debian

#! /bin/sh
# oftpd init script for Debian
# location of the oftpd executable
OFTPD=/usr/local/sbin/oftpd
# user to run as
USER=oftpd
# FTP home directory
FTPROOT=/home/httpd/htdocs
test -x $OFTPD || exit 0
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting oftpd"
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
      --exec $OFTPD $USER $FTPROOT
    echo "."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping oftpd"
    # redirect to /dev/null here because we're
    # brute-force killing all oftpds by name.
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo \
      --exec $OFTPD oftpd $FTPROOT &> /dev/null
    echo "."
    ;;
  restart|force-reload)
    $0 stop
    sleep 5
    $0 start
    ;;
  *)
    echo -n "Usage: /etc/init.d/oftpd"
    echo "{start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
    exit 1
esac
exit 0