Start a jar file like service in linux

java linux shell jar executable-jar
Alex Mathew picture Alex Mathew · Feb 4, 2014 · Viewed 71.9k times · Source

I want to start and stop my jar file as follows

service myService start

service myService stop

my current jar file running as follows

cd /home/alex/IdeaProjects/myService
java -jar target/myService-SNAPSHOT-1.jar server config.yml

What should I do?

Answer

PbxMan picture PbxMan · Feb 4, 2014

You need a Service Wrapper to run the Jar file.

There are examples and instructions for init.d here. or for systemd (ubuntu 16+) here

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