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 star

Answer 1

Recently I wrote installer for JBoss AS 7 that downloads tar.gz file from RedHat's server, extract it, add jboss-as as service and makes some very basic configuration. With it I get ready for use JBoss AS 7 in several seconds.

Installation script:

#!/bin/bash
#title           :jboss-install.sh
#description     :The script to install JBoss AS 7.x
#author          :Dmitriy Sukharev
#date            :20130106
#usage           :/bin/bash jboss-install.sh

JBOSS_AS_FILENAME=jboss-as-7.1.1.Final
JBOSS_AS_ARCHIVE_NAME=$JBOSS_AS_FILENAME.tar.gz 
JBOSS_AS_DOWNLOAD_ADDRESS=http://download.jboss.org/jbossas/7.1/$JBOSS_AS_FILENAME/$JBOSS_AS_ARCHIVE_NAME

INSTALL_DIR=/opt
JBOSS_AS_FULL_DIR=$INSTALL_DIR/$JBOSS_AS_FILENAME
JBOSS_AS_DIR=$INSTALL_DIR/jboss-as

JBOSS_AS_USER="jboss-as"
JBOSS_AS_SERVICE="jboss-as"

JBOSS_AS_STARTUP_TIMEOUT=240

SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

echo "Cleaning up..."
rm "$JBOSS_AS_ARCHIVE_NAME"
rm "$JBOSS_AS_DIR"
rm -r "$JBOSS_AS_FULL_DIR"
rm -r "/var/run/$JBOSS_AS_SERVICE/"
rm /etc/init.d/$JBOSS_AS_SERVICE

echo "Installation..."
wget $JBOSS_AS_DOWNLOAD_ADDRESS
mkdir $JBOSS_AS_FULL_DIR
tar -xzf $JBOSS_AS_ARCHIVE_NAME -C $INSTALL_DIR
ln -s $JBOSS_AS_FULL_DIR/ $JBOSS_AS_DIR
useradd -s /sbin/nologin $JBOSS_AS_USER
chown -R $JBOSS_AS_USER:$JBOSS_AS_USER $JBOSS_AS_DIR
chown -R $JBOSS_AS_USER:$JBOSS_AS_USER $JBOSS_AS_DIR/
rm $JBOSS_AS_ARCHIVE_NAME

echo "Registrating JBoss as service..."
sed -e 's,${JBOSS_AS_USER},'$JBOSS_AS_USER',g; s,${JBOSS_AS_FILENAME},'$JBOSS_AS_FILENAME',g; s,${JBOSS_AS_SERVICE},'$JBOSS_AS_SERVICE',g; s,${JBOSS_AS_DIR},'$JBOSS_AS_DIR',g' $SCRIPT_DIR/jboss-as.template > /etc/init.d/$JBOSS_AS_SERVICE
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/$JBOSS_AS_SERVICE

echo "Configurating..."
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
sed -i -e 's,,,g' $JBOSS_AS_DIR/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

echo "Done."

Init script:

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ${JBOSS_AS_SERVICE}
# 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_FILENAME}
### END INIT INFO

JBOSS_USER=${JBOSS_AS_USER}
JBOSS_DIR=${JBOSS_AS_DIR}

case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting ${JBOSS_AS_FILENAME}..."
start-stop-daemon --start --background --chuid $JBOSS_USER --exec $JBOSS_DIR/bin/standalone.sh
exit $?
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping ${JBOSS_AS_FILENAME}..."

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --chuid $JBOSS_USER --exec $JBOSS_DIR/bin/jboss-cli.sh -- --connect command=:shutdown
exit $?
;;
log)
echo "Showing server.log..."
tail -500f $JBOSS_DIR/standalone/log/server.log
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/jboss-as {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0

I described the script steps in my blog post. It also has the link to download this script files as archive.