What kind of init script support will we get?

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Hi Patrick,
I had the same problem when I installed filebeat today. One problem that "daemon" is not available on SLES so the script have to be modified.

Here's my version I changed to use startproc instead of daemon.

#!/bin/bash
#
# filebeat          filebeat shipper
#
# chkconfig: 2345 98 02
#

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          filebeat
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $network $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Sends log files to Logstash or directly to Elasticsearch.
# Description:       filebeat is a shipper part of the Elastic Beats
#                                        family. Please see: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/filebeat ] && . /etc/sysconfig/filebeat
pidfile=${PIDFILE-/var/run/filebeat.pid}
agent=${PB_AGENT-/usr/bin/filebeat}
args="-c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml"
test_args="-e -configtest"
wrapper="/usr/bin/filebeat-god"
wrapperopts="-r / -n -p $pidfile"
RETVAL=0

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

# Determine if we can use the -p option to daemon, killproc, and status.
# RHEL < 5 can't.
if status | grep -q -- '-p' 2>/dev/null; then
    daemonopts="-p $pidfile"
    pidopts="-p $pidfile"
fi

test() {
        $agent $args $test_args
}

start() {
    echo -n $"Starting filebeat: "
        test
        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
                echo
                exit 1
        fi
    startproc $daemonopts $wrapper $wrapperopts -- $agent $args
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping filebeat: "
    killproc $pidopts $wrapper
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f ${pidfile}
}

restart() {
        test
        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
                return 1
        fi
    stop
    start
}

rh_status() {
    status $pidopts $wrapper
    RETVAL=$?
    return $RETVAL
}

rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
    ;;
    stop)
        stop
    ;;
    restart)
        restart
    ;;
    condrestart|try-restart)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        restart
    ;;
    status)
        rh_status
    ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Because startproc parameters are a bit different I had to modiy the daemonopts parameter and enter the full path to the filebeat-god binary. In also had to replace /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions with /etc/rc.status but now the script is working.

Hope that will help.