I am having trouble running JBoss as a service / daemon on Fedora 8... Have installed JBoss 5.1.0 GA under the root user and didn't create a jboss user. Here's what I did so far: (1) Created the following jboss script in /etc/init.d/: #!/bin/sh # chkconfig: 3 87 20 #make sure java is in your path JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"/usr/java/jdk/bin/java"} echo JAVAPTH $JAVAPTH # Set JAVA_HOME JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME:-"/usr/java/jdk"} echo JAVA_HOME $JAVA_HOME echo JAVA $JAVA # Set classpath CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar; echo CLASSPATH $CLASSPATH #define where jboss is - this is the directory containing directories log, bin, conf etc JBOSS_HOME=${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=${JBOSS_USER:-"RUNASIS"} #configuration to use, usually one of 'minimal', 'default', 'all' JBOSS_CONF=${JBOSS_CONF:-"default"} #the host where jboss should answer. o.o.o.o means answer all calls. set this to yourhost.com JBOSS_HOST=${JBOSS_HOST:-"0.0.0.0"} start(){ echo "Starting jboss.." # If using an SELinux system such as RHEL 4, use the command below # instead of the "su": # eval "runuser - jboss -c '/opt/jboss/current/bin/run.sh > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &' # if the 'su -l ...' command fails (the -l flag is not recognized by my su cmd) try: # sudo -u jboss /opt/jboss/bin/run.sh > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & #su -l jboss -c '/current/bin/run.sh > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &' # eval "runuser - jboss -c '${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/run.sh > /dev/null 2> / dev/null &'" sh ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/run.sh } stop(){ echo "Stopping jboss.." # If using an SELinux system such as RHEL 4, use the command below # instead of the "su": # eval "runuser - jboss -c '/opt/jboss/current/bin/shutdown.sh -S &' # if the 'su -l ...' command fails try: # sudo -u jboss /opt/jboss/bin/shutdown.sh -S & # su -l jboss -c '/opt/jboss/current/bin/shutdown.sh -S &' sh ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/shutdown.sh } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; *) echo "Usage: jboss {start|stop}" exit 1 esac exit 0 (2) Set up permissions and symbolic links (for run levels): sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/jboss sudo chmod ug+x /etc/init.d/jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss /etc/rc3.d/S84jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss /etc/rc4.d/S84jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss /etc/rc5.d/S84jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss/etc/rc6.d/K15jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss/etc/rc0.d/K15jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss/etc/rc1.d/K15jboss ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/jboss/etc/rc2.d/K15jboss (3) When I run it like this: /etc/init.d/./jboss It runs perfectly (please take note the echo statements that show up first): JAVAPTH /usr/java/jdk/bin/java JAVA_HOME /usr/java/jdk JAVA CLASSPATH .:/usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.jar:/usr/java/jdk/lib/tools.jar: /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.jar:/usr/java/jdk/lib/tools.jar Starting jboss.. = ======================================================================== JBoss Bootstrap Environment JBOSS_HOME: /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA JAVA: /usr/java/jdk/bin/java JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m - XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true - Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 - Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 - Xdebug-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n - Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true CLASSPATH: /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.jar:/usr/java/jdk/lib/ tools.jar = ======================================================================== 22:50:15,825 INFO [ServerImpl] Starting JBoss (Microcontainer)... ... 22:53:29,933 INFO [ClasspathResourceConfig] Provider classes found: 22:53:33,927 INFO [Http11Protocol] Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-0.0.0.0-8080 22:53:33,950 INFO [AjpProtocol] Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-0.0.0.0-8009 22:53:34,021 INFO [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_1_0_GA date=200905221634)] Started in 3m:18s: 169ms Notice the JAVA and CLASSPATH are set... But when I try to do this: service jboss start It breaks (and the JAVA and the CLASSPATH are not set with JAVA): JAVAPTH /usr/java/jdk/bin/java JAVA_HOME /usr/java/jdk JAVA CLASSPATH :/bin/run.jar:/usr/java/jdk/lib/tools.jar Starting jboss.. = ======================================================================== JBoss Bootstrap Environment JBOSS_HOME: /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA JAVA: java JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.sh -Xms128m -Xmx512m - XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true - Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 - Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.bind.address=0.0.0.0 - Xdebug-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n - Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true CLASSPATH: /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.jar = ======================================================================== /usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA/bin/run.sh: line 261: java: command not found (4) This code block here (line 261 in $JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh): Code: while true; do if [ "x$LAUNCH_JBOSS_IN_BACKGROUND" = "x" ]; then # Execute the JVM in the foreground "$JAVA" $JAVA_OPTS \ -Djava.endorsed.dirs="$JBOSS_ENDORSED_DIRS" \ -classpath "$JBOSS_CLASSPATH" \ org.jboss.Main "$@" JBOSS_STATUS=$? (5) Fortunately, I was able to issue these with chkconfig: chkconfig --add jboss chkconfig jboss on (6) Created .bash_profile under root: Code: # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi if [ -f /root/firstlogin ] ; then echo " --[ see /etc/ec2/release-notes ]--" && echo rm -f /root/firstlogin fi # User specific environment and startup programs export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk"; export JBOSS_HOME="/usr/jboss-5.1.0.GA"; export CLASSPATH=.:$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar; PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$HOME/bin export PATH unset USERNAME It seems that the environment is completely different (because java unsets) when I run service jboss start opposed to doing it manually: / etc/init.d/./jboss. Does anyone know what I am possibly missing or doing wrong? Would be very appreciative if someone could help...