How to run spring-boot as a service in linux

Question

I am trying to run a spring-boot application as a service in linux box so that I can start and stop it as a jenkins job.

As per the suggestions in for this question Spring Boot application as a Service I created the soft link

$sudo link -s /opt/jenkins/workspace/myapp/myapp.jar /etc/init.d/myapp

Now when I am trying to run it from the jenkins command prompt I get command not found

$ sudo /etc/init.d/myapp start
sudo: /etc/init.d/myapp: command not found

I am using spring boot 1.3 and java8

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '16 at 15:11

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Did you check the executable flag (chmod +x myapp.jar)?

answered Feb 04 '16 at 15:11

Michael Forstner

Thanks, I missed that! :-) but I am not able to stop it, the command `$ sudo /etc/init.d/myapp stop` doesn't seem to understand the stop param – tintin Feb 04 '16 at 15:22
Did you follow the complete guide at http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#deployment-service? – Michael Forstner Feb 07 '16 at 10:27
You can build maven rpm package on Linux and install through YUM. – Pankaj Mandale Jul 16 '20 at 14:54

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