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useradd -m ofbiz
chown -R ofbiz /opt/ofbiz
chmod 700 /opt/ofbiz

2. Copy the rc.d ofbiz script to the /etc/init.d directory, with the name ofbiz, so you end up with: /etc/init.d/ofbiz

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6. Finally, we are ready to tell our Operating system, to execute this script automatically at certain points during OS startup/shutdown.  How we do this depends on our specific Linux Distro.  I have only put instructions here for those distros I am familiar with.   A generic point is that it is IMPORTANT here that your OFBiz starts AFTER any services on which it depends.  Typically this is your DB server.  If you use MySQL for instance, and MySQL starts with sequence 20, then OFbiz must start with sequence 21 or higher.   Invert this logic for stopping.

RedHat/Fedora

6a. Edit the comment line in your /etc/init.d/ofbiz, starting with # chkconfig, to reflect specific runlevels at which to start your service, and the order in which to start it.  For instance the following says "start ofbiz in runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5, at position 21.  At any other runlevels (ie 1 and 6), stop OFBiz in position 19."

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chkconfig --add ofbiz

Debian/Ubuntu

 6a. Execute the following commands as a user with sudo permissions (on a typical Ubuntu installation, this means a member of the admin group).  Do not omit the two dots in the second command, they are important.

sudo update-rc.d -f ofbiz remove
 sudo update-rc.d tomcat start 21 2 3 4 5 . stop 19 0 1 6 .

7. Fire 'er up!

Let's test the fecker!   We need to restart the machine.  Your distro may offer a graphical option for this but the standard unix command, to be executed via root or sudo, is the following.  Run it, wait a wee while, then try to login to your OFBiz from another machine on your LAN!

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