diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service/COPYRIGHT b/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service/COPYRIGHT
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+Sysvinit is Copyright (C) 1991-2004 Miquel van Smoorenburg
+
+    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 2 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, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service/skeleton b/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service/skeleton
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+#! /bin/sh
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          skeleton
+# Required-Start:    $local_fs
+# Should-Start:
+# Required-Stop:     $local_fs
+# Should-Stop:
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Example initscript
+# Description:       This file should be used to construct scripts to be
+#                    placed in /etc/init.d
+### END INIT INFO
+
+# The definition of actions: (From LSB 3.1.0)
+# start         start the service
+# stop          stop the service
+# restart       stop and restart the service if the service is already running,
+#               otherwise start the service
+# try-restart	restart the service if the service is already running
+# reload	cause the configuration of the service to be reloaded without
+#               actually stopping and restarting the service
+# force-reload	cause the configuration to be reloaded if the service supports
+#               this, otherwise restart the service if it is running
+# status	print the current status of the service
+
+# The start, stop, restart, force-reload, and status actions shall be supported
+# by all init scripts; the reload and the try-restart actions are optional
+
+# Common steps to convert this skeleton into a real init script
+# 1) cp skeleton <the_real_name>
+# 2) Set DESC and NAME
+# 3) Check whether the daemon app is /usr/sbin/$NAME, if not, set it.
+# 4) Set DAEMON_ARGS if there is any
+# 5) Remove the useless code
+
+# NOTE: The skeleton doesn't support the daemon which is a script unless the
+#       pidof supports "-x" option, please see more comments for pidofproc ()
+#       in /etc/init.d/functions
+
+# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
+PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
+
+DESC="skeleton"
+NAME="skeleton-test"
+DAEMON=/usr/sbin/$NAME
+DAEMON_ARGS=""
+PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
+
+. /etc/init.d/functions || exit 1
+
+# Exit if the package is not installed
+[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0
+
+# Read configuration variable file if it is present
+[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
+
+#
+# Function that starts the daemon/service
+#
+do_start() {
+	local status pid
+
+	status=0
+	pid=`pidofproc $NAME` || status=$?
+	case $status in
+	0)
+		echo "$DESC already running ($pid)."
+		exit 1
+		;;
+	*)
+		echo "Starting $DESC ..."
+		exec $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS >/dev/null 2>&1 || status=$?
+		echo "ERROR: Failed to start $DESC."
+		exit $status
+		;;
+	esac
+
+	# Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
+	# to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
+	# on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.
+}
+
+#
+# Function that stops the daemon/service
+#
+do_stop() {
+	local pid status
+
+	status=0
+	pid=`pidofproc $NAME` || status=$?
+	case $status in
+	0)
+		# Exit when fail to stop, the kill would complain when fail
+		kill -s 15 $pid >/dev/null && rm -f $PIDFILE && \
+			echo "Stopped $DESC ($pid)." || exit $?
+		;;
+	*)
+		echo "$DESC is not running; none killed." >&2
+		;;
+	esac
+
+	# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
+	# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
+	# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
+	# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
+	# needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
+	# sleep for some time.
+	return $status
+}
+
+#
+# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
+#
+do_reload() {
+	local pid status
+
+	status=0
+        # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
+        # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
+        # then implement that here.
+	pid=`pidofproc $NAME` || status=$?
+	case $status in
+	0)
+		echo "Reloading $DESC ..."
+		kill -s 1 $pid || exit $?
+		;;
+	*)
+		echo "$DESC is not running; none reloaded." >&2
+		;;
+	esac
+	exit $status
+}
+
+
+#
+# Function that shows the daemon/service status
+#
+status_of_proc () {
+	local pid status
+
+	status=0
+	# pidof output null when no program is running, so no "2>/dev/null".
+	pid=`pidofproc $NAME` || status=$?
+	case $status in
+	0)
+		echo "$DESC is running ($pid)."
+		exit 0
+		;;
+	*)
+		echo "$DESC is not running." >&2
+		exit $status
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+start)
+	do_start
+	;;
+stop)
+	do_stop || exit $?
+	;;
+status)
+	status_of_proc
+	;;
+restart)
+	# Always start the service regardless the status of do_stop
+	do_stop
+	do_start
+	;;
+try-restart|force-reload)
+	# force-reload is the same as reload or try-restart according
+	# to its definition, the reload is not implemented here, so
+	# force-reload is the alias of try-restart here, but it should
+	# be the alias of reload if reload is implemented.
+	#
+	# Only start the service when do_stop succeeds
+	do_stop && do_start
+	;;
+#reload)
+	# If the "reload" action is implemented properly, then let the
+	# force-reload be the alias of reload, and remove it from
+	# try-restart|force-reload)
+	#
+	#do_reload
+	#;;
+*)
+	echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|try-restart|force-reload}" >&2
+	exit 3
+	;;
+esac
+
diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service/skeleton_test.c b/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service/skeleton_test.c
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+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/* This demo does nothing except for testing /etc/init.d/skeleton */
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	daemon(0, 0);
+	while (1) {
+		sleep(1);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service_0.1.bb b/meta-skeleton/recipes-skeleton/service/service_0.1.bb
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+SUMMARY = "The canonical example of init scripts"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/COPYRIGHT;md5=349c872e0066155e1818b786938876a4"
+
+SRC_URI = "file://skeleton \
+	   file://skeleton_test.c \
+	   file://COPYRIGHT \
+	   "
+
+do_compile () {
+	${CC} ${WORKDIR}/skeleton_test.c -o ${WORKDIR}/skeleton-test
+}
+
+do_install () {
+	install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
+	cat ${WORKDIR}/skeleton | \
+	  sed -e 's,/etc,${sysconfdir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/usr/sbin,${sbindir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/var,${localstatedir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/usr/bin,${bindir},g' \
+	      -e 's,/usr,${prefix},g' > ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/skeleton
+	chmod a+x ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/skeleton
+
+	install -d ${D}${sbindir}
+	install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/skeleton-test ${D}${sbindir}/
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "initscripts"
+
+CONFFILES_${PN} += "${sysconfdir}/init.d/skeleton"