How to run/install JIRA as a service in macOS Catalina?

Question

To use the latest JIRA with macOS Catalina, currently i always have to login and run the start-lira.sh to get it started. How do I use it as a service instead? I mean, how can I run it without having to start the shell script manually after rebooting the system? Adding start-jira.sh to “Login items” did not help – JIRA fails to start this way.

Marcus Beyer · Answer

Thank you! This works, but only after login. Is it possible to start JIRA directly on macOS start?

Moving ~/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.atlassian.jira.plist to  /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.atlassian.jira.plist did seem to change anything.

Ravi Sagar _Sparxsys_ · Answer

Hi @Marcus Beyer

I never really tried it myself, mainly because I hardly restart my mac unless it freezes :)  but Atlassian did write about this on this page. May be it will work, I might also try. For my development instance I don't really mind doing "mvn jira:debug" manually to start Jira but having it start automatically on reboot would be nice.

Ravi