F I R S T   S T E P S :   B R I N G   J B O S S   T O   L I F E  

This solution will run JBoss as super user and therefore when someone can break 

into your system this is a security problem. Whenever you want to start a service at 

a port lower than 1024 you have to run it as super user like web server port 80. A 

way to go around this is to call the JBoss script as another user (like  nobody ) and 

redirect the port 8080 to port 80 (see Unix command  ipchain  or  iptables  for 

more). 

Copy the JBoss 3.0 distribution at its destination and check that you can let it run as super 

user.  

Take this script, save it in your /etc/init.d (could also be somewhere else like /sbin/init.d etc.) 

and make it runnable by the super user.  

Listing 2 2, JBoss  init.d  shell script 

################################ 

### Contents of jboss 

### 

### (Make sure #!/bin/sh is the first line of the file and the file 

### has execute permissions for root.) 

################################ 

#!/bin/sh 

# 

# Startup script for JBOSS, the J2EE EJB Server 

# 

# chkconfig: 2345 95 15 

# description: JBoss is an EJB Server 

# processname: jboss 

# pidfile: /var/run/jboss.pid 

# config: /usr/local/jboss/conf/default/jboss.conf 

# logfile: /usr/local/jboss/log/server.log 

# 

# version 1.0   

# version 1.1   kjenks   Start Tomcat, too. 

# 

# Source function library. 

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions 

#SET THE FOLLOWING LINE TO YOUR JAVA_HOME 

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/bin 

#SET THE FOLLOWING LINE TO YOUR CORRECT JBOSS_HOME 

export JBOSS_HOME=/usr/local/jboss 

export PATH=$PATH:$JBOSS_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin 

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