--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides: hippotatd
+# Required-Start: $syslog $network userv
+# Required-Stop: $syslog $network
+# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
+# Short-Description: hippotatd
+# Description: Asinine IP over HTTP server
+### END INIT INFO
+
+DAEMON=/usr/sbin/hippotat
+MASTER_CONFIG=/etc/hippotat/master.cfg
+USER=Debian-hippotat
+PIDFILE=/var/run/hippotat/hippotatd.pid
+LOGFACILITY=daemon
+# HIPPOTATD_ARGS
+
+. /etc/default/hippotatd
+
+test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
+egrep '^[^ #]' $MASTER_CONFIG >/dev/null || exit 0
+
+. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+
+ssd () {
+ set +e
+ start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --user $USER --pidfile=$PIDFILE "$@"
+ rc=$?
+ set -e
+}
+ensure_dirs () {
+ pidfiledir=${PIDFILE%/*}
+ if test -d ${pidfiledir}; then return; fi
+ mkdir -m 755 $pidfiledir
+ chown $USER $pidfiledir
+}
+
+do_start () {
+ ensure_dirs
+ ssd --chuid $USER --startas \
+ $DAEMON --daemon --pidfile=$PIDFILE \
+ --syslog-facility=$LOGFACILITY $HIPPOTATD_ARGS
+}
+do_stop () {
+ ssd --stop --retry 5
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+start)
+ log_daemon_msg "Starting IP over HTTP server" hippotatd
+ do_start
+ log_end_msg $rc
+ ;;
+
+stop)
+ log_daemon_msg "Stopping IP over HTTP server" hippotatd
+ do_stop
+ log_end_msg $rc
+ ;;
+
+restart|force-reload)
+ log_daemon_msg "Restarting IP over HTTP server" hippotatd
+ do_stop
+ sleep 1
+ do_start
+ log_end_msg $rc
+ ;;
+
+reload)
+ log_failure_msg "Cannot reload hippotat - need restart"
+ exit 1
+ ;;
+
+*)
+ echo >&2 "$0: unknown action $1"
+ exit 1
+ ;;
+
+esac
+
+exit 0