Starman init.d script

starman.sh

#!/bin/bash

# starman - this script starts and stops the starman daemon
#
# chkconfig:   - 85 15
# description: Starman 
# processname: starman
# pidfile :    /var/run/starman.pid
# www file:    /var/www/myapp


# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions


export starman="/usr/bin/starman"
export myapp_path="/var/www/myapp"
export pidfile="/var/run/starman.pid"


start() {
        echo -n $"Starting Starman: "
        $starman -I${myapp_path}/lib --user=nginx --listen :8080 --listen /var/run/nginx/starman.sock --daemonize --pid ${pidfile} --error-log /var/log/nginx/starman.log ${myapp_path}/${myapp}.psgi
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
        return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
        echo -n $"Restarting Starman: "
        export PID=`cat ${pidfile}`
        kill -s USR2 $PID 
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
        return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
        echo -n $"Stopping Starman: "
        killproc -p ${pidfile} -d 10 $starman
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f ${pidfile}
}
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  restart)
        restart
         ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: starman {start|restart|stop}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

For a more comprehensive solution, might want to take a look at starmachine: https://github.com/solgenomics/starmachine

And sticking with the init script approach, this uses Server::Starter for graceful restarts:
https://github.com/mla/starman-init