====== Writing Ebuilds ======

===== Init Scripts =====

Sometimes the software being installed needs to be run as a service and as such these should be started and stopped using Gentoo's init system.  The following is an example init script I wrote for the [[|shiny-server]] (an server written in R and Javascript)...

<code>

</code>

===== Links =====

  * [[http://devmanual.gentoo.org/|Gentoo Developers Guide]]
  * [[http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap4|Writing init scripts]]