Mplayer as daemon

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          mplayer
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Example initscript
# Description:       This file should be used to construct scripts to be
#                    placed in /etc/init.d.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Foo Bar <foobar@baz.org>
#
# Please remove the "Author" lines above and replace them
# with your own name if you copy and modify this script.

# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="Music"
DAEMONUSER=uberalles
NAME=mplayer
CONTROLFILE="/tmp/mplayercontrol"
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS="-loop 0 -shuffle -playlist /media/nfs_share/playlist"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

start() {
    echo "Starting mplayer..."

    # Prepare fifo file
    rm -rf $CONTROLFILE
    mkfifo $CONTROLFILE
    chmod a+rw $CONTROLFILE

    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --user $DAEMONUSER    \
            --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --background       \
            --exec /bin/bash -- -c "HOME=/home/$DAEMONUSER $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS > /tmp/mplayerd.log 2>&1"

    echo "Started for user: $DAEMONUSER."
}

stop() {
    echo "Stopping mplayer..."
    kill -9 `cat $PIDFILE`
    # Cleanup fifo file
    rm -rf $CONTROLFILE
}

status() {
    if [ -z `cat $PIDFILE` ];
    then
        echo "mplayerd: not running."
    else
        echo "mplayerd: running."
    fi
}


case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;

  stop)
    stop
    ;;

  restart|reload|force-reload)
    stop
    start
    ;;

  status)
    status
    ;;

  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/mplayerd {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}"
    exit 1

esac

exit 0