Starting the Endeca Server from inittab

In a Linux production environment, Endeca Server can be started by init from inittab.

In a Linux development environment, Endeca Server can be started from the command line. In a Linux production environment, however, Endeca recommends that it be started by init from inittab. If the service crashes or is terminated, init automatically restarts it.

The inittab entry should be formatted like this:
es:2345:respawn:/bin/su - <endeca_user> -c "/absolute/path/to/start.sh"
where: