First of all, is a best practice to use symbolic links with these kind of installations. If you change the program version you only will need to update the symbolic reference.
ln -s /opt/elasticsearch-1.5.2 /opt/elasticsearch
Also another best practice is to run the program with its own user.
useradd elasticsearch chown -Rf elasticsearch:elasticsearch /opt/elasticsearch chown -Rf elasticsearch:elasticsearch /opt/elasticsearch-1.5.2
Then, you go to /etc/init.d and create the service file ("inspired" from here and from one my previous post here):
#!/bin/sh
#
#
# elasticsearch
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 60
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
PROGRAM_CONSOLE_LOG=/var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log
PROGRAM_PIDFILE=/var/run/elasticsearch.pid
PROGRAM_SCRIPT="/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p $PROGRAM_PIDFILE"
PROGRAM_USER=elasticsearch
prog='Elasticsearch'
# Set defaults.
export PROGRAM_PIDFILE
if [ -z "$STARTUP_WAIT" ]; then
STARTUP_WAIT=30
fi
if [ -z "$SHUTDOWN_WAIT" ]; then
SHUTDOWN_WAIT=30
fi
start() {
echo -n "Starting $prog: "
if [ -f $PROGRAM_PIDFILE ]; then
read ppid < $PROGRAM_PIDFILE
if [ `ps --pid $ppid 2> /dev/null | grep -c $ppid 2> /dev/null` -eq '1' ]; then
echo -n "$prog is already running"
failure
echo
return 1
else
rm -f $PROGRAM_PIDFILE
fi
fi
mkdir -p $(dirname $PROGRAM_CONSOLE_LOG)
cat /dev/null > $PROGRAM_CONSOLE_LOG
chown -Rf $PROGRAM_USER $(dirname $PROGRAM_CONSOLE_LOG) || true
mkdir -p $(dirname $PROGRAM_PIDFILE)
chown $PROGRAM_USER $(dirname $PROGRAM_PIDFILE) || true
daemon --user $PROGRAM_USER --pidfile $PROGRAM_PIDFILE "$PROGRAM_SCRIPT" 1>"$PROGRAM_CONSOLE_LOG" 2>&1 &
sleep 2
# pidofproc node > $PROGRAM_PIDFILE
count=0
launched=false
until [ $count -gt $STARTUP_WAIT ]
do
echo 'checking start...'
grep 'started' $PROGRAM_CONSOLE_LOG > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
launched=true
break
fi
sleep 1
let count=$count+1;
done
if [ "$launched" = true ] ; then
echo 'Unable to start program'
fi
success
echo
return 0
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
count=0;
if [ -f $PROGRAM_PIDFILE ]; then
read kpid < $PROGRAM_PIDFILE
let kwait=$SHUTDOWN_WAIT
# Try issuing SIGTERM
kill -15 $kpid
until [ `ps --pid $kpid 2> /dev/null | grep -c $kpid 2> /dev/null` -eq '0' ] || [ $count -gt $kwait ]
do
sleep 1
let count=$count+1;
done
if [ $count -gt $kwait ]; then
kill -9 $kpid
fi
fi
rm -f $PROGRAM_PIDFILE
success
echo
}
status() {
if [ -f $PROGRAM_PIDFILE ]; then
read ppid < $PROGRAM_PIDFILE
if [ `ps --pid $ppid 2> /dev/null | grep -c $ppid 2> /dev/null` -eq '1' ]; then
echo "$prog is running (pid $ppid)"
return 0
else
echo "$prog dead but pid file exists"
return 1
fi
fi
echo "$prog is not running"
return 3
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
status
;;
*)
## If no parameters are given, print which are avaiable.
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
Finally, you have to make this script as runnable and configure the service as autostart.
chmod +x /etc/init.d/elasticsearch chkconfig --add elasticsearch chkconfig elasticsearch on
