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