Simple startup script
The maintained version of this script can be found on github.
#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: jackrabbit # Description: Start/stop the Jackrabbit server. # This relies on a PID file to check if Jackrabbit is running or not. # If you kill Jackrabbit without removing the PID file, you will not be # start Jackrabbit with this script before you manually removed the PID # file. # Author: Daniel Barsotti <daniel.barsotti@liip.ch> ### END INIT INFO ### YOU HAVE TO EDIT THESE VALUES !!! BASEDIR=/home/dev/jackalope/jackrabbit JACKRABBIT_JAR=$BASEDIR/jackrabbit-standalone-2.2.6-SNAPSHOT.jar JACKRABBIT_HOST=127.0.0.1 JACKRABBIT_PORT=8080 ### PIDFILE=$BASEDIR/jackrabbit.pid LOGFILE=$BASEDIR/jackrabbit.log #set -x do_start() { if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then cd $BASEDIR nohup java -jar $JACKRABBIT_JAR -h $JACKRABBIT_HOST -p $JACKRABBIT_PORT >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 & echo $! > $PIDFILE echo "Jackrabbit started" else echo "Jackrabbit is already running" fi } do_stop() { if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then kill $(cat $PIDFILE) rm $PIDFILE echo "Jackrabbit stopped" else echo "Jackrabbit is not running" fi } do_status() { if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then echo "Jackrabbit is running [ pid = " $(cat $PIDFILE) "]" else echo "Jackrabbit is not running" fi } case "$1" in start) do_start ;; stop) do_stop ;; status) do_status ;; *) echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status}" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac