The script I made

lircmd (text/plain), 381 bytes, created by Radek Podgorny on 2003-03-09 15:47:30 UTC

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later

depend() {
	need lircd
}

start() {
	ebegin "Starting lircmd"
	start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircmd
	eend $?
}

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping lircmd"
	start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/lircmd
	eend $?
}