How to run JBoss as a service/daemon in RedHat?
socal_javaguy Jul 27, 2009 8:20 PMI 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...