Start JBoss 7 as a service on Linux

Question

Previous versions of JBoss included a scripts (like jboss_init_redhat.sh) that could be copied to /etc/init.d in order to add it as a service - so it would start on boot up. I can't seem to find any similar scripts in JBoss 7. Has anyone already done something like this?

P.S. I'm trying to achieve this in Ubuntu 10.04

Answer 1

After spending a couple of hours of snooping around I ended up creating /etc/init.d/jboss with the following contents

#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:          jboss # Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog # Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop:      0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start/Stop JBoss AS v7.0.0 ### END INIT INFO # #source some script files in order to set and export environmental variables #as well as add the appropriate executables to $PATH [ -r /etc/profile.d/java.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/java.sh [ -r /etc/profile.d/jboss.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/jboss.sh  case "$1" in     start)         echo "Starting JBoss AS 7.0.0"         #original:         #sudo -u jboss sh ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/standalone.sh          #updated:         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --chuid jboss --exec ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/standalone.sh     ;;     stop)         echo "Stopping JBoss AS 7.0.0"         #original:         #sudo -u jboss sh ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/jboss-admin.sh --connect command=:shutdown          #updated:         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --chuid jboss --exec ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/jboss-admin.sh -- --connect command=:shutdown     ;;     *)         echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/jboss {start|stop}"         exit 1     ;; esac  exit 0 

Here's the content of java.sh:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java_current export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH 

And jboss.sh:

export JBOSS_HOME=/opt/jboss/as/jboss_current export PATH=$JBOSS_HOME/bin:$PATH 

Obviously, you need to make sure, you set JAVA_HOME and JBOSS_HOME appropriate to your environment.

then I ran sudo update-rc.d jboss defaults so that JBoss automatically starts on system boot

I found this article to be helpful in creating the start-up script above. Again, the script above is for Ubuntu (version 10.04 in my case), so using it in Fedora/RedHat or CentOS will probably not work (the setup done in the comments is different for those).