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+#!/bin/sh
+
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          bal_core_dist
+# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network $syslog
+# Required-Stop:     $network $local_fs $syslog
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Broadcom BAL core daemon
+# Description:       Broadcom BAL core daemon
+### END INIT INFO
+
+NAME="bal_core_dist"
+PATH="/broadcom:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
+APPDIR="/broadcom"
+#APPBIN="/broadcom/bal_core_dist"
+APPBIN="bal_core_dist"
+APPARGS="-C :55001"
+USER="root"
+GROUP="root"
+
+# Include functions 
+set -e
+. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+
+start() {
+  touch /var/log/$NAME.log
+  printf "Starting '$NAME'... "
+  start-stop-daemon --verbose --start --chuid "$USER:$GROUP" --background --no-close --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid --chdir "$APPDIR" --exec "$APPBIN" -- $APPARGS < /dev/tty1 >> /var/log/$NAME.log 2>&1 || true
+  printf "done\n"
+}
+
+#We need this function to ensure the whole process tree will be killed
+killtree() {
+    local _pid=$1
+    local _sig=${2-TERM}
+    for _child in $(ps -o pid --no-headers --ppid ${_pid}); do
+        killtree ${_child} ${_sig}
+    done
+    kill -${_sig} ${_pid}
+}
+
+stop() {
+  printf "Stopping '$NAME'... "
+  [ -z `cat /var/run/$NAME.pid 2>/dev/null` ] || \
+  while test -d /proc/$(cat /var/run/$NAME.pid); do
+    killtree $(cat /var/run/$NAME.pid) 15
+    sleep 0.5
+  done 
+  [ -z `cat /var/run/$NAME.pid 2>/dev/null` ] || rm /var/run/$NAME.pid
+  printf "done\n"
+}
+
+status() {
+  status_of_proc -p /var/run/$NAME.pid $APPDIR/$APPBIN $NAME && exit 0 || exit $?
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+  start)
+    start
+    ;;
+  stop)
+    stop
+    ;;
+  restart)
+    stop
+    start
+    ;;
+  status)
+    status
+    ;;
+  *)
+    echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|status}" >&2
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+esac
+
+exit 0