diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c48517d273965884552fe967b89b5448d3c1f0a5..b3f2628f240f203dc1c99cf726b2b80946295915 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ Pipe logs to Mattermost or Slack webhooks
# Requirements
* Mattermost or Slack instance
-* `tail` and `curl` in `$PATH`
+* `curl`, `jq`, `tail`
-## TODO
-
-* Config file(s)
-* Init script with defaults override, restart, etc
-* Make binary deps paths configurable?
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+# Installation
+1. `git clone https://git.ethitter.com/debian/eth-log-alerting.git /usr/local/eth-log-alerting`
+2. `cp /usr/local/eth-log-alerting/init.sh /etc/init.d/eth_log_alerting`
+3. `cp /usr/local/eth-log-alerting/defaults /etc/default/eth_log_alerting`
+4. Edit `/etc/default/eth_log_alerting`
+5. `sudo update-rc.d eth_log_alerting defaults`
+6. `/etc/init.d/eth_log_alerting start`
diff --git a/defaults b/defaults
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cadef453ce6af25324a2a707193d73ea488dba97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/defaults
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+LOG_FILE=""
+WEBHOOK_URL=""
+USERNAME=""
+CHANNEL=""
+COLOR=""
+ICON_URL=""
+GREP=""
+
+DAEMON_OPTIONS="$LOG_FILE $WEBHOOK_URL \"$USERNAME\" \"$CHANNEL\" \"$COLOR\" $ICON_URL \"$GREP\""
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diff --git a/init.sh b/init.sh
index 3e834c4dddebbb0510756de5feac8ebfe736be3b..d4d10ad2342678b2b86ff352a84bb941a5f55c5e 100755
--- a/init.sh
+++ b/init.sh
@@ -1,17 +1,131 @@
#!/bin/sh
-LISTENER_BIN=/usr/local/eth-log-alerting/pipe.sh
-test -x $LISTENER_BIN || exit 5
-PIDFILE=/var/run/eth_log_alerting.pid
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides: eth_log_alerting
+# Required-Start: $network
+# Required-Stop: $network
+# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Pipe log entries to Mattermost
+### END INIT INFO
+
+# Defaults
+DAEMON_NAME="ETH Log Alerting"
+DAEMON_EXECUTABLE="/usr/local/eth-log-alerting/pipe.sh"
+DAEMON_OPTIONS=""
+DAEMON_HOMEDIR="/usr/local/eth-log-alerting"
+DAEMON_PIDFILE="/var/run/eth_log_alerting.pid"
+DAEMON_LOGFILE="/var/log/eth_log_alerting.log"
+INIT_SLEEPTIME="2"
+
+# Defaults can be overridden in this file
+DAEMON_DEFAULTS_FILE="/etc/default/eth_log_alerting"
+
+PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
+
+# Load alternate configuration if exists
+test -f $DAEMON_DEFAULTS_FILE && . $DAEMON_DEFAULTS_FILE
+
+. /lib/lsb/init-functions
+
+# Usually no need to edit below this point. Just have these ready:
+#
+# * DAEMON_EXECUTABLE - full path to the executable
+# * DAEMON_OPTIONS - options to pass to the executable
+# * DAEMON_NAME - a decriptive name
+# * DAEMON_HOMEDIR - place where to cd before running
+# * DAEMON_PIDFILE - pid file name
+# * DAEMON_LOGFILE - log file name
+# * INIT_SLEEPTIME - how long to wait for startup and shutdown
+#
+# The rest will be taken care of. Executable is run with "nohup", so no
+# need to fork.
+
+is_running () {
+ # Test whether pid file exists or not
+ test -f $DAEMON_PIDFILE || return 1
+
+ # Test whether process is running or not
+ read PID < "$DAEMON_PIDFILE"
+ ps -p $PID >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
+
+ # Is running
+ return 0
+}
+
+root_only () {
+ if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
+ echo "Only root should run this operation"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+}
+
+run () {
+ if is_running; then
+ PID="$(cat $DAEMON_PIDFILE)"
+ echo "Daemon is already running as PID $PID"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ cd $DAEMON_HOMEDIR
+
+ nohup $DAEMON_EXECUTABLE $DAEMON_OPTIONS >>$DAEMON_LOGFILE 2>&1 &
+ echo $! > $DAEMON_PIDFILE
+ read PID < "$DAEMON_PIDFILE"
+
+ sleep $INIT_SLEEPTIME
+ if ! is_running; then
+ echo "Daemon died immediately after starting. Please check your logs and configurations."
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ echo "Daemon is running as PID $PID"
+ return 0
+}
+
+stop () {
+ if is_running; then
+ read PID < "$DAEMON_PIDFILE"
+ kill $PID
+ fi
+ sleep $INIT_SLEEPTIME
+ if is_running; then
+ while is_running; do
+ echo "waiting for daemon to die (PID $PID)"
+ sleep $INIT_SLEEPTIME
+ done
+ fi
+ rm -f "$DAEMON_PIDFILE"
+ return 0
+}
case "$1" in
- start)
- echo -n "Starting log alerting.... "
- startproc -f -p $PIDFILE $LISTENER_BIN
- echo "running"
- ;;
- *)
- echo "Usage: $0 start"
- exit 1
- ;;
-esac
+ start)
+ root_only
+ log_daemon_msg "Starting $DAEMON_NAME"
+ run
+ log_end_msg $?
+ ;;
+ stop)
+ root_only
+ log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DAEMON_NAME"
+ stop
+ log_end_msg $?
+ ;;
+ restart)
+ root_only
+ $0 stop && $0 start
+ ;;
+ status)
+ status_of_proc \
+ -p "$DAEMON_PIDFILE" \
+ "$DAEMON_EXECUTABLE" \
+ "$DAEMON_NAME" \
+ && exit 0 \
+ || exit $?
+ ;;
+ *)
+ echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
+ exit 1
+ ;;
+esac
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diff --git a/pipe.sh b/pipe.sh
index 7fbb3fcc787246a429c363297478a721d6e6bbb3..1eb97e7496996f471154a3d400e598b553aecb19 100755
--- a/pipe.sh
+++ b/pipe.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# TODO: path and config for send.sh
-/usr/bin/tail -Fq log.log | while read x ; do send.sh "$x" "#errors" "danger"; done
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Defaults and aliases
+LOG_FILE=$1
+WEBHOOK_URL=$2
+USERNAME=${3:-logbot}
+CHANNEL=${4:-#logs}
+COLOR=${5:-default}
+ICON_URL=$6
+GREP=$7
+
+tail -n0 -F "$LOG_FILE" | while read LINE; do
+ (echo "$LINE" | grep -e "$GREP") && jq -n --arg line_encoded " $LINE" \ "{ \
+ channel: \"$CHANNEL\", \
+ username: \"$USERNAME\", \
+ attachments: [ { \
+ fallback: \"New entry in $LOG_FILE\", \
+ pretext: \"\`$LOG_FILE\`\", \
+ text: \$line_encoded, \
+ color: \"$COLOR\" \
+ } ],\
+ icon_url: \"$ICON_URL\" \
+ }" | cat <(echo "payload=") <(cat -) | curl \
+ -X POST \
+ -s \
+ -d@- \
+ $WEBHOOK_URL;
+done
diff --git a/send.sh b/send.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b92de7edbd51170a406056fc4b6d8f8a1fd641cf..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/send.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-MSG=${1:-Oops}
-CHANNEL=${2:-#errors}
-COLOR=${3:-default}
-
-# TODO: source these from a common config
-USERNAME="Log bot"
-CONTEXT="New log entry"
-ICON_URL=""
-WEBHOOK_URL=""
-
-/usr/bin/curl \
- -X POST \
- -s \
- --data-urlencode "payload={ \
- \"channel\": \"$CHANNEL\", \
- \"username\": \"$USERNAME\", \
- \"attachments\": [ { \
- \"fallback\": \"New log entry\", \
- \"pretext\": \"$CONTEXT\", \
- \"text\": \"$MSG\", \
- \"color\": \"$COLOR\" \
- } ],\
- \"icon_url\": \"$ICON_URL\" \
- }" \
- $WEBHOOK_URL