handle server init script anybody?

Hello,

I just moved our DSpace to a new machine. This ment moving from Debian etch to squeeze. And I believe a server
is not completely configured if I cant run shutdown -r now without all services coming up again in an
orderly fashion. 

For tomcat and postgres, this is out of the box functionality on any decent distribution, but not so for the
handle server. CNRI does not deliver something useful for this purpose together with their software and
well, if you read their docs, then say clearly, this software is not ment to be ready to run, so I am on my own.

On my old machine I had tweaked something resembling an init script, called it handled and placed it in
/etc/init.d/. It worked for several years. When I copied it to the new machine it ceased working. No real
wonder, blame me a conman if I call myself an admin, but I admit I am not good at coding and not even at writing
simple shell scripts. It happens to rarely that I have to do it in my everyday work, so it is a real teadious
task for me.

If youd ask me what exactly I did in the old script, well basically I called start-handle-server as the
tomcat unix user when run with start as argument. As the official way to stop the handle server is to find out
the process id and kill it, I just forgot about it and made stop be an empty method. Reload was the same as
start which probably would not do its job but I did not care. Thats all. 
It had a description section at the start which made it possible to run update-rc.d handled default, which
is the usual way to create the appropriate links within all rc?.d folders on debian. Quick and dirty you
might call that but it did exactly what I was looking for.

Now, my question is, am I the only one who is looking for something like this? Am I the only one who thinks it is a
weird thing to invent it myself because there are probably so many more out there who had to solve the same
issue before? What is your solution, everybody?

Thanks for answers, thanks for posting a ready made init script, that safes me the headaches from fiddling
myself with #!/bin/sh.

Bye, Christian

PS: Is the use of version 7.0 of handle.jar endorsed or may I stay with version 6.2 and still feel like a pro?
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