It is a program to manage the start and stop of system level background processes (daemons). You use it by passing in parameters (such as the pid file to create/check) and command arguments for the process you want to launch. Then, you do one of two things: start-stop-daemon -S [other arguments] something start something, if … Read more
To expand on ypocat’s answer, since it won’t let me comment: start-stop-daemon –start –quiet –chuid $DAEMONUSER \ –make-pidfile –pidfile $PIDFILE –background \ –startas /bin/bash — -c “exec $DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS > /var/log/some.log 2>&1” Using exec to run the daemon allows stop to correctly stop the child process instead of just the bash parent. Using –startas instead … Read more
On Debian we use the start-stop-daemon utility, which handles pid-files, changing the user, putting the daemon into background and much more. I’m not familiar with RedHat, but the daemon utility that you are already using (which is defined in /etc/init.d/functions, btw.) is mentioned everywhere as the equivalent to start-stop-daemon, so either it can also change … Read more
The following works for springboot 1.3 and above: As init.d service The executable jar has the usual start, stop, restart, and status commands. It will also set up a PID file in the usual /var/run directory and logging in the usual /var/log directory by default. You just need to symlink your jar into /etc/init.d like … Read more
First create your startup script @ /home/user/startup.sh, and make it executable chmod +x /home/user/startup.sh Then set a crontab for it: $ crontab -e @reboot /home/user/startup.sh Now your your startup.sh script will run at every start.