When you need to start a service (like Glassfish or Play) in Ubuntu, you can take this script as a template:
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
... execute a shell script here ...
;;
stop)
... execute a shell script here ...
;;
restart)
... execute a shell script here ...
;;
esac
exit 0
Make sure to make your scripts executable. In order to get it running during startup, add a link to the init.d directory and register the service-script to make it run as first service (depends on your system which priority you assign, take care here, I just took 01 as an example)
cd /etc/init.d sudo ln -sf ~/your-script.sh your-script.sh sudo update-rc.d your-script.sh defaults 01 01
Reboot and you’ll see that your services get started.
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