Configure JBoss service

For security reasons you shouldn't run JBoss as root. It is better to create an user named openkm and run JBoss from him:

$ adduser openkm

Create a file with the script:

$ vim /etc/init.d/jboss

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/jboss: Start and stop JBoss AS
ECHO=/bin/echo
TEST=/usr/bin/test
JBOSS_START_SCRIPT=/home/openkm/jboss-4.2.2.GA/bin/run.sh
JBOSS_STOP_SCRIPT=/home/openkm/jboss-4.2.2.GA/bin/shutdown.sh

$TEST -x $JBOSS_START_SCRIPT || exit 0
$TEST -x $JBOSS_STOP_SCRIPT || exit 0

start() {
    $ECHO -n "Starting JBoss"
    su - openkm -c "$JBOSS_START_SCRIPT -b 0.0.0.0 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &"
    $ECHO "."
}

stop() {
    $ECHO -n "Stopping JBoss"
    su - openkm -c "$JBOSS_STOP_SCRIPT -S > /dev/null &"
    $ECHO "."
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        sleep 30
        start
        ;;
    *)
        $ECHO "Usage: jboss {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac
exit 0

And make it executable:

$ chmod 755 /etc/init.d/jboss

Now update the run-levels:

$ update-rc.d jboss defaults

Also is a good idea to configure JBoss memory utilization. Edit the file $JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh and add a new parameter JAVA_OPTS where you can increase the system memory managed by the JVM (Java Virtual Machine):

DIRNAME=`dirname $0`
PROGNAME=`basename $0`
GREP="grep"
JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1744m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

This example is for a system with 2 GB of RAM.

For more info, read http://jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-11566.