Running ArchivesSpace as a Unix daemon

The archivesspace.sh startup script doubles as an init script. If you run:

 archivesspace.sh start

ArchivesSpace will run in the background as a daemon (logging to logs/archivesspace.out by default, as before). You can shut it down with:

 archivesspace.sh stop

You can even install it as a system-wide init script by creating a symbolic link:

 cd /etc/init.d
 ln -s /path/to/your/archivesspace/archivesspace.sh archivesspace

Then use the appropriate tool for your distribution to set up the run-level symbolic links (such as chkconfig for RedHat or update-rc.d for Debian-based distributions).

Note that you may want to edit archivesspace.sh to set the account that the system runs under, JVM options, and so on.