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I create symlink in init.d directory: ln -s /myservice.jar /etc/init.d/myservice.

After reboot system symlink is replaced with regular file.

ls -l /etc/init.d/myservice output before reboot:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 31 12:34 /etc/init.d/myservice -> /myservice.jar

After reboot:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41912304 Mar 31 12:40 /etc/init.d/myservice.jar

Why is this happening?

upd. On the server is used ISPmanager, can this be a problem?

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  • I can't answer that because I've not got experience with it, but if you want to stop it you might want to make the file immutable. chattr +i filename will make a file unwritable even by root until chattr -i is used to remove the bit. – Wyatt8740 Mar 31 '17 at 13:40
  • Which version of CentOS are you using? – roaima Apr 2 '17 at 21:42
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what happens, if you execute

$ java -jar /etc/init.d/myservice

Does it work as expected? And does it happen to replace myservice with myservice.jar at that very moment of running the java -jar command? If so, then we have a clue about the mysterious behaviour you described.

Jar files are designed to be portable, while symlinks surely are not, so I'd expect this behaviour to be a blunt result of some auto-correction on Java's side to eagerly satisfy its classpath needs.

Regards, Micha

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  • Spring boot create executable .jar file that, when launched by symlink, starts as a service. Before reboot system everything works fine – Nick Apr 3 '17 at 11:14
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Will service myservice start start you application ? (service myservice.jar start)

more important, will service myservice stop stop you application ?

file in /etc/init.d are services files.

  1. They are supposed to be called with start|stop|status|restart as only argument. (| stand for or)

  2. They are supposed to be linked from /etc/rcX.d where X in run level (0 to 6).

  3. furthemore, some indication tell when to start them (before or after filesystems are up ? before or after network is up ? database ? webserver ? ), so rcinit will parse them.

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  • In a traditional init subsystem a file in init.d is the definitive one, and the rc.d S* and K* files are the symlinks. i still haven't got my head around the mess that systemd has made of that all. (Sometimes the shims work but other times they don't.) – roaima Apr 2 '17 at 20:41

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