From ef11bf26268d67aa32d9e6cbe50ffcbddb6dacb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Demo User <debian@beaglebone.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:48:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] allows user associated with script to stop it

---
 template | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/template b/template
index 57d3154..56824a4 100755
--- a/template
+++ b/template
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 # Description:       Enable service provided by daemon.
 ### END INIT INFO
 
-dir=""
-cmd=""
-user=""
+dir="/home/debian"
+cmd="python3 $dir/script"
+user="debian"
 
 name=`basename $0`
 pid_file="/var/run/$name.pid"
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@ case "$1" in
         cd "$dir"
         if [ -z "$user" ]; then
             sudo $cmd >> "$stdout_log" 2>> "$stderr_log" &
+            echo $! > "$pid_file"
         else
             sudo -u "$user" $cmd >> "$stdout_log" 2>> "$stderr_log" &
+            sleep 1 # process not always started fast enough
+            echo $(pgrep -U "$user" -xf "$cmd") > "$pid_file"
         fi
-        echo $! > "$pid_file"
         if ! is_running; then
             echo "Unable to start, see $stdout_log and $stderr_log"
             exit 1

From 694ffc699813e2eb900d147d884b1c272d038062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Demo User <debian@beaglebone.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:51:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] removed test strings

---
 template | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/template b/template
index 56824a4..9dedf0d 100755
--- a/template
+++ b/template
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
 # Description:       Enable service provided by daemon.
 ### END INIT INFO
 
-dir="/home/debian"
-cmd="python3 $dir/script"
-user="debian"
+dir=""
+cmd=""
+user=""
 
 name=`basename $0`
 pid_file="/var/run/$name.pid"