ircd-seven start scripts

ircd:

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/ircd
#
# IRCd-seven
# Script to start and stop IRCd-seven
# Author: Mikael Fridh
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
# description: IRCd-seven is an IRC daemon
# processname: ircd
# config: /usr/local/ircd/etc/ircd.conf

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

# Defaults
IRCD_USER=ircd

# Pull in settings:
[ -f /etc/sysconfig/ircd ] && [ . /etc/sysconfig/ircd ]

start() {
echo -n "Starting ircd: "
daemon --check ircd --user ${IRCD_USER} /usr/local/ircd/bin/ircd
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/ircd
return 0
}

stop() {
echo -n "Shutting down ircd: "
killproc ircd
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ircd
return 0
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status ircd
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
reload)
echo -n "Sending ircd the HUP signal ..."
killproc ircd "-HUP"
echo
;;
condrestart)
[ -f /var/lock/subsys/ircd ] && restart || :
;;
*)
echo "Usage: ircd {start|stop|status|reload|restart|condrestart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $?

Wrote an article (howto) on incorporating vmware view in Ubuntu LTSP

I wrote this a couple weeks ago;
http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/VMWareViewVDI

In short; Allows you to create a thin client out of any commodity hardware PC, for use with a Vmware View Server.

LTSP is a really nice project... kudos to ThinStation, but I got way better performance out of VMWare View on Ubuntu than on ThinStation... mainly due to poor graphics driver support in ThinStation.