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How can we start a Java made application as a background process in Linux (Ubuntu). In Windows using a .Net based application we could install it as a service.
So what is the professional and secure way ?
Initially my stupidity lead me to use Tomcat server :p
Edit: a little research suggest to use the command 'daemon' when starting a process in Ubuntu from the terminal
The correct way to do this is to add init scripts
put a start and stop script into /etc/init.d/ and then create symbolic links to these from /etc/rc[runlevel].d/ to start and stop your service
For apache2, there is this script /etc/init.d/apache2
Start script: in /etc/rc5.d:
S91apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
Kill script: in /etc/rc6.d and /etc/rc1.d
K09apache2 -> ../init.d/apache2
Sounds like you want rc5.d
for more detailed information read
/etc/init.d/README
For runlevels refer
More resources:
update-rc.d) have tools to create the correct links in the rc directories. This also keeps track of start dependencies and other nice things, so make sure to see how it is supposed to be done in the distribution.
May 20, 2012 at 13:07