Bug#585515: xvfb: Please add a daemon for Xvfb

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

Package: xvfb
Version: 2:1.4.2-10.lenny2
Severity: normal


Hi,

  It would be nice if a daemon was available to start/stop Xvfb. See attach file for suggestion.

  the initial script was found at:

http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=102335321103262&w=2

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xvfb depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontenc1             1:1.0.4-3        X11 font encoding library
ii  libhal1                 0.5.11-8         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libpixman-1-0           0.16.4-1~bpo50+1 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-3        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.0.2-3        X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxfont1               1:1.3.3-1        X11 font rasterisation library
ii  x11-common              1:7.3+20         X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc

Versions of packages xvfb recommends:
ii  xbase-clients                 1:7.3+20   miscellaneous X clients - metapack
ii  xfonts-base                   1:1.0.0-5  standard fonts for X

xvfb suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

XVFB=/usr/bin/X11/Xvfb
XVFBARGS=":99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -fbdir /var/run -ac"
PIDFILE=/var/run/xvfb.pid
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting virtual X frame buffer: Xvfb"
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile --background --exec $XVFB -- $XVFBARGS
    echo "."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping virtual X frame buffer: Xvfb"
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE
    echo "."
    ;;
  restart)
    $0 stop
    $0 start
    ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/xvfb {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0