How Do I Change The Linux Service Name

[Matt Kennedy]

I am installing JIRA Software and JIRA Servicedesk on the same linux server (different directories) however i first installed JIRA Service desk, and the service installed was jira. But after installing JIRA Software, there are two services, jira and jira1.

How can I change the name of jira1 to jirasoftware

[Mirek · Accepted solution]

Please check that article

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-set-the-user-jira-runs-as-in-linux-433390559.html

Hope it helps! :)

[Matt Kennedy]

Hi Mirek,

This is helpful for changing the user running the service.

I need to change the name of the service.

I am wanting to have JIRA Software and JIRA Servicedesk running from the SAME user, (lets say the user is atlas) and the services named jirasoftware and jiraservicedesk.

[Mirek]

Hmm .. Assuming that you run on linux then services are stored /etc/init.d , so you should have /etc/init.d/jira and /etc/init.d/jira1 .. Cannot you simply copy script and rename to jirasoftware and jiraservicedesk, then make a changes inside?. It might look like this...

#!/bin/sh -e
# JIRA startup script
#chkconfig: 2345 80 05
#description: JIRA

# Define some variables
# Name of app ( JIRA, Confluence, etc )
APP=jira
# Name of the user to run as
USER=jira
# Location of application's bin directory
BASE=/opt/atlassian/jira/current
# Location of Java JDK
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

case "$1" in
  # Start command
  start)
    echo "Starting $APP"
    /bin/su -m $USER -c "cd $BASE/logs && $BASE/bin/startup.sh &> /dev/null"
    ;;
  # Stop command
  stop)
    echo "Stopping $APP"
    /bin/su -m $USER -c "$BASE/bin/shutdown.sh &> /dev/null"
    echo "$APP stopped successfully"
    ;;
   # Restart command
   restart)
        $0 stop
        sleep 5
        $0 start
        ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$APP {start|restart|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Second, on Debian/Ubuntu, use update-rc.d to install the script to the default runlevels

update-rc.d jirasoftware defaults

On CentOS, RHEL, Fedora and other distributions need to run the following command:

chkconfig --add jirasoftware

You should be done.

[Matt Kennedy]

Nailed it. Thanks Merik. Cheers

[Mirek]

Awesome! Glad that I was able to help :)