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+#!/bin/bash
+
+###########################################################################
+# Packaging script which creates debian and RPM packages. It optionally
+# tags the repo with the given version. 'fpm' must be on the path.
+
+INSTALL_ROOT_DIR=/opt/influxdb
+CONFIG_ROOT_DIR=/etc/opt/influxdb
+
+SAMPLE_CONFIGURATION=etc/config.sample.toml
+INITD_SCRIPT=scripts/init.sh
+
+TMP_WORK_DIR=`mktemp -d`
+POST_INSTALL_PATH=`mktemp`
+ARCH=`uname -i`
+
+###########################################################################
+# Helper functions.
+
+# usage prints simple usage information.
+usage() {
+    echo -e "$0 [<version>] [-h]\n"
+    cleanup_exit $1
+}
+
+# cleanup_exit removes all resources created during the process and exits with
+# the supplied returned code.
+cleanup_exit() {
+    rm -r $TMP_WORK_DIR
+    rm $POST_INSTALL_PATH
+    exit $1
+}
+
+# check_gopath sanity checks the value of the GOPATH env variable.
+check_gopath() {
+    [ -z "$GOPATH" ] && echo "GOPATH is not set." && cleanup_exit 1
+    [ ! -d "$GOPATH" ] && echo "GOPATH is not a directory." && cleanup_exit 1
+    echo "GOPATH ($GOPATH) looks sane."
+}
+
+# check_clean_tree ensures that no source file is locally modified.
+check_clean_tree() {
+    modified=$(git ls-files --modified | wc -l)
+    if [ $modified -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "The source tree is not clean -- aborting."
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "Git tree is clean."
+}
+
+# update_tree ensures the tree is in-sync with the repo.
+update_tree() {
+    git pull origin master
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to pull latest code -- aborting."
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+    git fetch --tags
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to fetch tags -- aborting."
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "Git tree updated successfully."
+}
+
+# check_tag_exists checks if the existing release already exists in the tags.
+check_tag_exists () {
+    version=$1
+    git tag | grep -q "^v$version$"
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "Proposed version $version already exists as a tag -- aborting."
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# make_dir_tree creates the directory structure within the packages.
+make_dir_tree() {
+    work_dir=$1
+    version=$2
+    mkdir -p $work_dir/$INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$version/scripts
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to create installation directory -- aborting."
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+    mkdir -p $work_dir/$CONFIG_ROOT_DIR
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to create configuration directory -- aborting."
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+
+# do_build builds the code.
+do_build() {
+    rm $GOPATH/bin/*
+    go install -a ./...
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Build failed, unable to create package -- aborting"
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+    echo "Build completed successfully."
+}
+
+# generate_postinstall_script creates the post-install script for the
+# package. It must be passed the version.
+generate_postinstall_script() {
+    version=$1
+    cat  <<EOF >$POST_INSTALL_PATH
+rm -f $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/influxd
+rm -f $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/init.sh
+ln -s  $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$version/influxd $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/influxd
+ln -s  $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$version/scripts/init.sh $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/init.sh
+
+if [ ! -L /etc/init.d/influxdb ]; then
+    ln -sfn $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/init.sh /etc/init.d/influxdb
+    chmod +x /etc/init.d/influxdb
+    if which update-rc.d > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+        update-rc.d -f influxdb remove
+        update-rc.d influxdb defaults
+    else
+        chkconfig --add influxdb
+    fi
+fi
+
+if ! id influxdb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        useradd --system -U -M influxdb
+fi
+chown -R -L influxdb:influxdb $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR
+chmod -R a+rX $INSTALL_ROOT_DIR
+EOF
+    echo "Post-install script created successfully at $POST_INSTALL_PATH"
+}
+
+###########################################################################
+# Start the packaging process.
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+    usage 1
+elif [ $1 == "-h" ]; then
+    usage 0
+else
+    VERSION=$1
+fi
+
+echo -e "\nStarting package process...\n"
+
+check_gopath
+check_clean_tree
+update_tree
+check_tag_exists $VERSION
+do_build
+make_dir_tree $TMP_WORK_DIR $VERSION
+
+###########################################################################
+# Copy the assets to the installtion directories.
+
+cp $GOPATH/bin/* $TMP_WORK_DIR/$INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$VERSION
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Failed to copy binaries to packaging directory -- aborting."
+    cleanup_exit 1
+fi
+echo "Binaries in $GOPATH/bin copied to $TMP_WORK_DIR/$INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$VERSION"
+
+cp $INITD_SCRIPT $TMP_WORK_DIR/$INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$VERSION/scripts
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Failed to init.d script to packaging directory -- aborting."
+    cleanup_exit 1
+fi
+echo "$INITD_SCRIPT copied to $TMP_WORK_DIR/$INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/versions/$VERSION/scripts"
+
+cp $SAMPLE_CONFIGURATION $TMP_WORK_DIR/$CONFIG_ROOT_DIR
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Failed to copy $SAMPLE_CONFIGURATION to packaging directory -- aborting."
+    cleanup_exit 1
+fi
+
+generate_postinstall_script $VERSION
+
+###########################################################################
+# Create the actual packages.
+
+echo -n "Commence creation of $ARCH packages, version $VERSION? [Y/n] "
+read response
+response=`echo $response | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
+if [ "x$response" == "xn" ]; then
+    echo "Packaging aborted."
+    cleanup_exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ $ARCH == "i386" ]; then
+    rpm_package=influxdb-$VERSION-1.i686.rpm
+    debian_package=influxdb_${VERSION}_i686.deb
+    deb_args="-a i686"
+    rpm_args="setarch i686"
+elif [ $ARCH == "arm" ]; then
+    rpm_package=influxdb-$VERSION-1.armel.rpm
+    debian_package=influxdb_${VERSION}_armel.deb
+else
+    rpm_package=influxdb-$VERSION-1.x86_64.rpm
+    debian_package=influxdb_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
+fi
+
+COMMON_FPM_ARGS="--after-install $POST_INSTALL_PATH -n influxdb -v $VERSION -C $TMP_WORK_DIR ."
+DESCRIPTION="Distributed time-series database"
+$rpm_args fpm -s dir -t rpm --description "$DESCRIPTION" $COMMON_FPM_ARGS
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Failed to create RPM package -- aborting."
+    cleanup_exit 1
+fi
+echo "RPM package created successfully."
+
+fpm -s dir -t deb $deb_args --description "$DESCRIPTION"  $COMMON_FPM_ARGS
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Failed to create Debian package -- aborting."
+    cleanup_exit 1
+fi
+echo "Debian package created successfully."
+
+###########################################################################
+# Offer to tag the repo.
+
+echo -n "Tag source tree with v$VERSION and push to repo? [y/N] "
+read response
+response=`echo $response | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
+if [ "x$response" == "xy" ]; then
+    echo "Creating tag v$VERSION and pushing to repo"
+    git tag v$VERSION
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to create tag v$VERSION -- aborting"
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+    git push origin v$VERSION
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to push tag v$VERSION to repo -- aborting"
+        cleanup_exit 1
+    fi
+else
+    echo "Not creating tag v$VERSION."
+fi
+
+echo -e "\nPackaging process complete."
+cleanup_exit 0
diff --git a/scripts/init.sh b/scripts/init.sh
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+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          influxd
+# Required-Start:    $all
+# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Start influxd at boot time
+### END INIT INFO
+
+# this init script supports three different variations:
+#  1. New lsb that define start-stop-daemon
+#  2. Old lsb that don't have start-stop-daemon but define, log, pidofproc and killproc
+#  3. Centos installations without lsb-core installed
+#
+# In the third case we have to define our own functions which are very dumb
+# and expect the args to be positioned correctly.
+
+if [ -r /lib/lsb/init-functions ]; then
+    source /lib/lsb/init-functions
+fi
+
+DEFAULT=/etc/default/influxdb
+
+if [ -r $DEFAULT ]; then
+    source $DEFAULT
+fi
+
+if [ "x$NOFILES" == "x" ]; then
+    NOFILES=0
+fi
+
+if [ $NOFILES -le 0 ]; then
+    NOFILES=65536
+fi
+
+if [ "x$STDOUT" == "x" ]; then
+    STDOUT=/dev/null
+fi
+
+echo "Setting ulimit -n $NOFILES"
+if ! ulimit -n $NOFILES >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo -n "Cannot set the max number of open file descriptors"
+fi
+
+function pidofproc() {
+    if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+        echo "Expected three arguments, e.g. $0 -p pidfile daemon-name"
+    fi
+
+    pid=`pgrep -f $3`
+    local pidfile=`cat $2`
+
+    if [ "x$pidfile" == "x" ]; then
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    if [ "x$pid" != "x" -a "$pidfile" == "$pid" ]; then
+        return 0
+    fi
+
+    return 1
+}
+
+function killproc() {
+    if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+        echo "Expected three arguments, e.g. $0 -p pidfile signal"
+    fi
+
+    pid=`cat $2`
+
+    kill -s $3 $pid
+}
+
+function log_failure_msg() {
+    echo "$@" "[ FAILED ]"
+}
+
+function log_success_msg() {
+    echo "$@" "[ OK ]"
+}
+
+# Process name ( For display )
+name=influxd
+
+# Daemon name, where is the actual executable
+daemon=/opt/influxdb/influxd
+
+# pid file for the daemon
+pidfile=/var/opt/influxdb/run/influxd.pid
+
+# Configuration file
+config=/etc/opt/influxdb/config.sample.toml
+
+# If the daemon is not there, then exit.
+[ -x $daemon ] || exit 5
+
+case $1 in
+    start)
+        # Checked the PID file exists and check the actual status of process
+        if [ -e $pidfile ]; then
+            pidofproc -p $pidfile $daemon > /dev/null 2>&1 && status="0" || status="$?"
+            # If the status is SUCCESS then don't need to start again.
+            if [ "x$status" = "x0" ]; then
+                log_failure_msg "$name process is running"
+                exit 1 # Exit
+            fi
+        fi
+        # Start the daemon.
+        log_success_msg "Starting the process" "$name"
+        # Start the daemon with the help of start-stop-daemon
+        # Log the message appropriately
+        cd /
+        if which start-stop-daemon > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            nohup start-stop-daemon --chuid influxdb:influxdb -d / --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $pidfile --exec $daemon -- -pidfile $pidfile -config $config >> $STDOUT 2>&1 &
+        elif set | egrep '^start_daemon' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            start_daemon -u influxdb ${daemon}-daemon -pidfile $pidfile -config $config >> $STDOUT 2>&1
+        else
+            su -s /bin/sh -c "${daemon}-daemon -pidfile $pidfile -config $config >> $STDOUT 2>&1" influxdb
+        fi
+        log_success_msg "$name process was started"
+        ;;
+
+    stop)
+        # Stop the daemon.
+        if [ -e $pidfile ]; then
+            pidofproc -p $pidfile $daemon > /dev/null 2>&1 && status="0" || status="$?"
+            if [ "$status" = 0 ]; then
+                if killproc -p $pidfile SIGTERM && /bin/rm -rf $pidfile; then
+                    log_success_msg "$name process was stopped"
+                else
+                    log_failure_msg "$name failed to stop service"
+                fi
+            fi
+        else
+            log_failure_msg "$name process is not running"
+        fi
+        ;;
+
+    restart)
+        # Restart the daemon.
+        $0 stop && sleep 2 && $0 start
+        ;;
+
+    status)
+        # Check the status of the process.
+        if [ -e $pidfile ]; then
+            if pidofproc -p $pidfile $daemon > /dev/null; then
+                log_success_msg "$name Process is running"
+                exit 0
+            else
+                log_failure_msg "$name Process is not running"
+                exit 1
+            fi
+        else
+            log_failure_msg "$name Process is not running"
+            exit 3
+        fi
+        ;;
+
+    *)
+        # For invalid arguments, print the usage message.
+        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
+        exit 2
+        ;;
+esac