Here is my unaltered and working /etc/init.d/bacula-dir from ubuntu 
server 10.10 apt-get install:

# cat bacula-dir
#! /bin/sh
#
# bacula  This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
#      the bacula Director daemon on Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu
#      systems.
#
#   Kern E. Sibbald - 21 March 2008
#
#  For Bacula release 5.0.3 (04 August 2010) -- ubuntu
#

NAME="bacula-dir"
DESC="Bacula Director"
DAEMON=/sbin/${NAME}
BUSER=
BGROUP=
BOPTIONS="-c /etc/bacula/${NAME}.conf"
BPORT=9101

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

#
# Disable Glibc malloc checks, it doesn't help and it keeps from getting
#   good dumps
MALLOC_CHECK_=0
export MALLOC_CHECK_

if [ -n "`getent services ${NAME}`" ]; then
    BPORT=`getent services ${NAME} | awk '{ gsub("/tcp","",$2); print 
$2; }'`
fi
mkdir -p /var/run
PIDFILE=/var/run/${NAME}.${BPORT}.pid

if [ "x${BUSER}" != "x" ]; then
    BOPTIONS="${BOPTIONS} -u ${BUSER}"
fi
if [ "x${BGROUP}" != "x" ]; then
    BOPTIONS="${BOPTIONS} -g ${BGROUP}"
fi

case "$1" in
    start)
       echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
       start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --exec 
${DAEMON} -- ${BOPTIONS}
       RETVAL=$?
       echo "${NAME}"
       ;;
    stop)
       echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "
       start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --exec ${DAEMON} -- 
${BOPTIONS}
       RETVAL=$?
       echo "${NAME}"
       ;;
    restart|force-reload)
       $0 stop
       sleep 5
       $0 start
       ;;
    *)
       echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/${NAME} 
{start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
       exit 1
       ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL


On 2/28/2011 9:41 AM, gianni wrote:
> Summarinzing:
> on ubuntu 10.10 bacula-dir doesn't start automatically (there is a
> problem with the bacula-dir script in /etc/init.d), could you please
> tell me how to modify this standard script, taken from the bacula
> source?
> I wrote the values that I think are correct in the comments, the rest
> of the script is inaltered.
>
> thanks
>
> #! /bin/sh
> #
> # bacula  This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
> #       the bacula Director daemon on Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu
> #       systems.
> #
> #   Kern E. Sibbald - 21 March 2008
> #
> #  For Bacula release @VERSION@ (@DATE@) -- @DISTNAME@
> #
>
> NAME="bacula-dir"
> DESC="Bacula Director"
> # I would use
> #DAEMON= /usr/sbin/${NAME}
> DAEMON=@sbindir@/${NAME}
> # I would use
> #BUSER=bacula
> BUSER=@dir_user@
> # I would use
> #BGROUP=bacula
> BGROUP=@dir_group@
> # I would use
> #BOPTIONS="-c /etc/bacula/${NAME}.conf"
> BOPTIONS="-c @sysconfdir@/${NAME}.conf"
> # 9101?
> BPORT=@dir_port@
>
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
>
> test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
>
> #
> # Disable Glibc malloc checks, it doesn't help and it keeps from getting
> #   good dumps
> MALLOC_CHECK_=0
> export MALLOC_CHECK_
>
> if [ -n "`getent services ${NAME}`" ]; then
>     BPORT=`getent services ${NAME} | awk '{ gsub("/tcp","",$2); print $2; }'`
> fi
>
> # is piddir= /var/run/bacula?
> mkdir -p @piddir@
> PIDFILE=@piddir@/${NAME}.${BPORT}.pid
>
> if [ "x${BUSER}" != "x" ]; then
>     BOPTIONS="${BOPTIONS} -u ${BUSER}"
> fi
> if [ "x${BGROUP}" != "x" ]; then
>     BOPTIONS="${BOPTIONS} -g ${BGROUP}"
> fi
>
> case "$1" in
>     start)
>        echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
>        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile ${PIDFILE} --exec
> ${DAEMON} -- ${BOPTIONS}
>        RETVAL=$?
>        echo "${NAME}"
>        ;;
>     stop)
>        echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "
>        start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --exec ${DAEMON} -- 
> ${BOPTIONS}
>        RETVAL=$?
>        echo "${NAME}"
>        ;;
>     restart|force-reload)
>        $0 stop
>        sleep 5
>        $0 start
>        ;;
>     *)
>        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}">&2
>        exit 1
>        ;;
> esac
> exit $RETVAL
>
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