Problems running Glassfish on Ubuntu as a service

Question

I have Glassfish 3.1.2 installed on Ubuntu, I've set up a separate "glassfish" user to run it as and have JDK 1.7.0 installed. If I log in as the "glassfish" user and start GF via the shell:

/usr/local/java/glassfish/glassfish-3.1.2/glassfish/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1

It starts up fine, so I think I have everything installed ok. The problem is trying to start it with the following init.d script:

#! /bin/sh
export AS_JAVA=/usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0
GLASSFISHPATH=/usr/local/java/glassfish/glassfish-3.1.2/glassfish/bin

case "$1" in
start)
echo "starting glassfish from $GLASSFISHPATH"
sudo -u glassfish $GLASSFISHPATH/asadmin start-domain domain1
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
stop)
echo "stopping glassfish from $GLASSFISHPATH"
sudo -u glassfish $GLASSFISHPATH/asadmin stop-domain domain1
;;
*)
echo $"usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 3
;;
esac
:

On trying that I get:

exec: 54: java: not found

I've also tried adding the following line to the init.d script:

export PATH=/usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0/bin:$PATH

But that didn't seem to do anything. I've been using instructions on http://www.nabisoft.com/tutorials/glassfish/installing-glassfish-301-on-ubuntu to get this far. As someone more familiar with Windows I'd really appreaciate any help identifying the problem. Thanks.

Answer 1

It would take a little tracing to figure out what's setting the path but an easy way is to edit asadmin. It's a shell script and you can set the full path to java in there.