Centos – How to start java service automatically when Centos server starts up

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I have a server running CentOS, which I am configuring and I would like to have a java service startup automatically when the server is restarted how can I go about doing this?

The command to run the service is:

java -jar testing.jar

this is located in folder /sys/java/service.

Also being new to Linux how can I actually kill the service if I need to?

Best Answer

Put the command in /etc/rc.local

the best option would be running it as a dedicated user as in

su - username -c "java -jar /sys/java/service/testing.jar"

you can kill the service then with

pkill -u username java

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My goto solution for things like this is to install and use supervisord.

Supervisord is a python process supervisor that is very simple to install from your distro's package repo, and simple to configure. You just add a simple config file for your executable and supervisor takes care of starting it up, capturing output, and (optionally) re-starting it if the process fails.

An example config would look like this:

[program:udp_server]
user = <username>
command = /opt/mono/bin/mono /root/MySoft/UDPServer.exe "$@"
stdout_logfile = /var/log/udp_server-stdout.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes = 10MB
stdout_logfile_backups = 5
stderr_logfile = /var/log/udp_server-stderr.log
stderr_logfile_maxbytes = 10MB
stderr_logfile_backups = 5

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