updated scripts as to what I have working in prod plus mods for rtylers comments

rc-scripts/init.d/spawning.fedora

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
-# spawning      Starts Spawning 
+# spawning.$app_name      Starts Spawning 
 #
 #
 # chkconfig: 345 88 12
@@ -13,22 +13,24 @@
 . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 
 # config
-if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/spawning.my-app-name ]; then
-    . /etc/sysconfig/spawning.my-app-name
+if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/spawning.$app_name ]; then
+    . /etc/sysconfig/spawning.$app_name
 fi
 
-name="spawning.my-app-name"
+name="spawning.$app_name"
 prog="spawning"
-exec=/usr/bin/spawning #Path to Spawning executable
+exec=$exec  #Path to Spawning executable
 
 description="Starts a Spawning daemon to run the internets"
 # This is where your app or settings.py lives
 
 # Don't edit this
-PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
-lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/${prog}
+PIDFILE=/var/run/$name.pid
+lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/${name}
 
-export PYTHONPATH=${python_path}
+if [ $python_path ]; then
+    export PYTHONPATH=${python_path}
+fi
 
 # make sure the access_log file exists
 if [ ! -e $access_log ]; then
@@ -43,18 +45,24 @@ start() {
 
 
     echo -n "Starting $name on $host:$port...: "
+    echo -e "\n"
 
     conf="--host=$host --port=$port"
     conf="$conf --stderr=$error_log --access-log-file=$access_log"
     [ -n "$pocesses" ]  && conf="$conf --processes=$processes"
-    [ -n "$threads" ]  && conf="$conf --threads=$threads"
-    [ -n "$factory" ]    && conf="$conf --factory=$factory"
-    conf="$conf $app"
+    [ -n "$threads" ]   && conf="$conf --threads=$threads"
+    [ -n "$factory" ]   && conf="$conf --factory=$factory"
+    [ -n "$dev" ]       && conf="$conf --reload=dev"
+    [ -n "$CHUID" ]     && conf="$conf --chuid=$CHUID"
 
+    conf="$conf $app"
+    
     # if not running, start it up here, usually something like "daemon $exec"
     daemon $exec --daemonize $conf
     retval=$?
-    echo
+
+    echo -e "\n"
+
     [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
     return $retval
 }
@@ -97,4 +105,4 @@ case "$1" in
         exit 1
         ;;
 esac
-exit $?
+exit $?

rc-scripts/sysconfig/spawning.fedora

@@ -1,17 +1,31 @@
 # CONFIGURATION - edit this stuff with your keyboard.
 
+app_name=app_name  # necessary for namespacing
+                   # this will effect the site directory, log paths, user name
+                   # and expected location of this file from the init.d script
+                   # though there is nothing stopping you from changing each of those settings by hand
+
 processes=2 # Number of processes to spawn
 threads=8 # Number of threads to spawn
 
-port="80"
-host="0.0.0.0" # listen on loopback by default
+port="8080"
+host="localhost" # listen on loopback by default
 
 # Django by default: delete this var to run a WSGI app
 factory="spawning.django_factory.config_factory"
-site_dir=/var/www/your-site/
+site_dir=/var/www/$app_name
+exec=${site_dir}/bin/spawning
+
 app="settings" # Django by default, but put your own app here
 
-access_log=/var/log/spawning/access_log
-error_log=/var/log/spawning/error_log
+CHUID="$app_name"  # if running multiple insances of spawning 
+                   # setup a user for each application
+                   # in addition .bashrc files that set paths are likely necessary as well
 
-python_path=$site_dir:/usr/lib/python26.zip:/usr/lib/python2.6:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload:/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
+access_log=/var/log/spawning.$app_name/access_log  # to have logging "off" ... set these vars to /dev/null
+error_log=/var/log/spawning.$app_name/error_log
+
+#python_path=$site_dir:/usr/lib/python26.zip:/usr/lib/python2.6:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old:/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload:/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
+# a default fedora install will not have a pythonpath available to init scripts ... 
+# these are the paths for fedora 13 ... 
+# your milage may vary... though this variable is very likely necessary to get your script to work