diff --git a/tapeserver/cta-taped.init b/tapeserver/cta-taped.init
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-#! /bin/sh
-#
-#
-# The CERN Tape Archive (CTA) project
-# Copyright (C) 2015  CERN
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-
-# Source function library.
-. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
-
-# Variables
-prog="cta-taped"
-export DAEMON_COREFILE_LIMIT="unlimited"
-RETVAL=0
-
-# Source sysconfig files
-if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/cta-taped ]; then
-        . /etc/sysconfig/cta-taped
-fi
-if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/$prog ]; then
-        . /etc/sysconfig/$prog
-fi
-
-start() {
-        # Run daemon
-        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
-
-        cd /var/log/cta
-        daemon /usr/bin/$prog $CTA_TAPED_OPTIONS
-
-        # Write the pid to a file.
-        RETVAL=$?
-        if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
-                pid=`ps -eo pid,ppid,comm | egrep " 1 $prog\$" | awk '{print $1}'`
-                rm -f /var/run/$prog.pid
-                if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
-                        echo $pid > /var/run/$prog.pid
-                        RETVAL=0
-                else
-                        RETVAL=1
-                fi
-        fi
-
-        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success $"$base startup" || failure $"$base startup"
-        echo
-        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog
-        return $RETVAL
-}
-
-stop() {
-        echo -n $"Stopping $prog and cleaning up the drive (maximum delay of 10 minutes): "
-        killproc -d 600 $prog
-
-        RETVAL=$?
-        echo
-        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
-        return $RETVAL
-}
-
-
-restart() {
-        stop
-        start
-}
-
-# See how we were called
-case "$1" in
-
-        start)
-                start
-                ;;
-        stop)
-                stop
-                ;;
-        status)
-                status $prog
-                RETVAL=$?
-                ;;
-        restart)
-                restart
-                ;;
-        condrestart)
-                [ -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && restart || :
-                ;;
-        *)
-                echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}"
-                exit 1
-esac
-
-exit $RETVAL