[CentOS] best way to start and shutdown programs in CentOS?

Wed Nov 24 21:05:16 UTC 2010
Jeff <jlar310 at gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Kill Script <killscript at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Java program that I want to start up with every boot, but I'm
> unsure how to do it.
> There are two bootup scripts that start manually (script1.sh and
> script2.sh), and when the server gets shutdown, we have another script that
> we run (shutdownscript.sh) so that the DB does not get corrupted.

Have you looked at Java Service Wrapper:

http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.com/doc/english/introduction.html

Ultimately, you will be creating an init.d script as discussed in this
thread, but this provides some java-specific features.

-- Jeff