Running Glassfish as a service on CentOS

Here is how you run glassfish as a service on CentOS:

Create a user glassfish (you can call it anything you want) under which Glassfish will run.

#useradd glassfish

Install glassfish in /home/glassfish.
Create the startup script /etc/init.d/glassifsh for glassfish.

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#!/bin/bash
#
# glassfish: Startup script for Glassfish Application Server.
#
# chkconfig: [...]

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