How to run JBoss as a service/daemon in RedHat?

[socal_javaguy]

I am using JBoss 5.1.0 GA on Red Hat (Amazon ECS)...

Am trying to set it up so JBoss will run as a service / daemon (right now it only starts up when I manually SSH and invoke sh $JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh).

Here's what I did so far:

(1) Created the following jboss script in /etc/init.d/:

#define where jboss is - this is the directory containing directories log, bin, conf etc
JBOSS_HOME=${JBOSS_HOME:-"/usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA"}

#define the user under which jboss will run, or use 'RUNASIS' to run as the current user
JBOSS_USER=${JBOSS_USER:-"jboss"}

#make sure java is in your path
JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"/usr/java/jdk/bin"}

#configuration to use, usually one of 'minimal', 'default', 'all'
JBOSS_CONF=${JBOSS_CONF:-"default"}

#if JBOSS_HOST specified, use -b to bind jboss services to that address
JBOSS_BIND_ADDR=${JBOSS_HOST:+"-b $JBOSS_HOST"}

#define the classpath for the shutdown class
JBOSSCP=${JBOSSCP:-"$JBOSS_HOME/bin/shutdown.jar:$JBOSS_HOME/client/jnet.jar"}

#define the script to use to start jboss
JBOSSSH=${JBOSSSH:-"$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh -c $JBOSS_CONF $JBOSS_BIND_ADDR"}

if [ "$JBOSS_USER" = "RUNASIS" ]; then
 SUBIT=""
else
 SUBIT="su - $JBOSS_USER -c "
fi

if [ -n "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" -a ! -d "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" ]; then
 # ensure the file exists
 touch $JBOSS_CONSOLE
 if [ ! -z "$SUBIT" ]; then
 chown $JBOSS_USER $JBOSS_CONSOLE
 fi
fi

if [ -n "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" -a ! -f "$JBOSS_CONSOLE" ]; then
 echo "WARNING: location for saving console log invalid: $JBOSS_CONSOLE"
 echo "WARNING: ignoring it and using /dev/null"
 JBOSS_CONSOLE="/dev/null"
fi

#define what will be done with the console log
JBOSS_CONSOLE=${JBOSS_CONSOLE:-"/dev/null"}

JBOSS_CMD_START="cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin; $JBOSSSH"
JBOSS_CMD_STOP=${JBOSS_CMD_STOP:-"java -classpath $JBOSSCP org.jboss.Shutdown --shutdown"}

if [ -z "`echo $PATH | grep $JAVAPTH`" ]; then
 export PATH=$PATH:$JAVAPTH
fi

if [ ! -d "$JBOSS_HOME" ]; then
 echo JBOSS_HOME does not exist as a valid directory : $JBOSS_HOME
 exit 1
fi

echo JBOSS_CMD_START = $JBOSS_CMD_START

case "$1" in
start)
 cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin
 if [ -z "$SUBIT" ]; then
 eval $JBOSS_CMD_START >${JBOSS_CONSOLE} 2>&1 &
 else
 $SUBIT "$JBOSS_CMD_START >${JBOSS_CONSOLE} 2>&1 &"
 fi
 ;;
stop)
 if [ -z "$SUBIT" ]; then
 $JBOSS_CMD_STOP
 else
 $SUBIT "$JBOSS_CMD_STOP"
 fi
 ;;
restart)
 $0 stop
 $0 start
 ;;
*)
 echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|help)"
esac

(2) Made script executable and changed ownership by doing the following:

sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/jboss
sudo chmod ug+x /etc/init.d/jboss

(3) When I tried to start it, I received the following output (and JBoss didn't start):

JBOSS_CMD_START = cd /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin; /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.sh -c default

Questions:

(1) What am I possibly doing wrong?

(2) How do I set it up so it runs as root user? Do I have to add a JBoss group and a JBoss user?

I can manually run JBoss through $JBOSS_HOME/bin but would love to have it running all the time...

Any help is greatly appreciated...