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+#!/bin/bash
+
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HOME}/ramcloud/bindings/java/edu/stanford/ramcloud:${HOME}/ramcloud/obj.blueprint-java
+
+function host2ip (){
+   ip=`egrep "$1\$" /etc/hosts |grep -v "ip6"|  awk '{print $1}'`
+   echo $ip
+}
+
+# Set paths
+ONOS_HOME=`dirname $0`
+RAMCLOUD_DIR=${HOME}/ramcloud
+LOGDIR=${ONOS_HOME}/onos-logs
+RAMCLOUD_LOG=${LOGDIR}/ramcloudcoordinator.`hostname`.log
+thishost=`hostname`
+thisip=`host2ip $thishost`
+RAMCLOUD_COORDINATOR="fast+udp:host=$thisip,port=12242"
+
+function lotate {
+    logfile=$1
+    nr_max=${2:-10}
+    if [ -f $logfile ]; then
+	for i in `seq $(expr $nr_max - 1) -1 1`; do
+	    if [ -f ${logfile}.${i} ]; then
+		mv -f ${logfile}.${i} ${logfile}.`expr $i + 1`
+	    fi
+	done
+	mv $logfile $logfile.1
+    fi
+}
+
+function start {
+  if [ ! -d ${LOGDIR} ]; then
+    mkdir -p ${LOGDIR}
+  fi
+  echo "rotate log: $log"
+  if [ -f $RAMCLOUD_LOG ]; then
+    lotate $RAMCLOUD_LOG
+  fi
+
+  # Run ramcloud 
+  echo "Starting ramcloud coordinator"
+  $RAMCLOUD_DIR/obj.blueprint-java/coordinator  -L $RAMCLOUD_COORDINATOR > $RAMCLOUD_LOG 2>&1 &
+}
+
+function stop {
+  # Kill the existing processes
+  capid=`pgrep coordinator | awk '{print $1}'`
+  pids="$capid"
+  for p in ${pids}; do
+    if [ x$p != "x" ]; then
+      kill -KILL $p
+      echo "Killed existing prosess (pid: $p)"
+    fi
+  done
+}
+
+function deldb {
+#   # Delete the berkeley db database
+   if [ -d "/tmp/ramcloud.conf" ]; then
+      echo "deleting berkeley db dir"
+      sudo rm -rf /tmp/ramcloud.conf
+   fi
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+  start)
+    deldb
+    cp $ONOS_HOME/conf/ramcloud.conf /tmp
+    stop
+    start 
+    ;;
+  stop)
+    stop
+    ;;
+#  deldb)
+#    deldb
+#    ;;
+  status)
+    n=`pgrep -f obj.blueprint-java/coordinator | wc -l`
+    echo "$n ramcloud coordinator is running"
+    ;;
+  *)
+    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
+    exit 1
+esac