Starting JIRA automatically on FreeBSD

On *nix-based BSD operating systems, the best practice is to install, configure and run each service (including JIRA) as a dedicated user with only the permissions they require.

To run JIRA automatically on FreeBSD:

1. As root, create the file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jira.sh (code shown below), which will be responsible for starting up JIRA after a reboot (or when manually invoked). If you are not using postgresql for your database, change the REQUIRE line to whatever is in the PROVIDE line in your database init script.

   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # Startup script for JIRA on FreeBSD
   #
   # This goes in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and gets run at boot-time.
   
   # PROVIDE: jira
   # REQUIRE: postgresql
   # KEYWORD: shutdown
   
   #
   # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable jira:
   #
   #jira_enable="YES"
   #
   jira_enable="${jira_enable-NO}"
   
   . /etc/rc.subr
   
   name="jira"
   rcvar=`set_rcvar`
   start_cmd="${name}_start"
   stop_cmd="${name}_stop"
   
   jira_start()
   {
       echo -n " Starting JIRA"
       su - atlassian -c '/home/atlassian/jira/bin/startup.sh'
   }
   
   jira_stop()
   {
       echo -n " Stopping JIRA"
       su - atlassian -c '/home/atlassian/jira/bin/shutdown.sh'
   }
   
   load_rc_config $name
   run_rc_command "$1"
   

2. Make the init script executable:

   chmod \+x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jira.sh
   

3. Make the init script readonly:

   chmod \-w /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jira.sh
   

4. Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf

   jira_enable="YES"
   

More information can be found in this article.