Nexus Deamon Setup

NOTE: These steps are obsolete. Please see: Nexus Setup for current instructions.

Before attempting to configure the deamon settings below, be sure you stop any running instances of Nexus.

To enable Nexus to launch automatically at system boot time, make the following changes:

  1. Create a new init.d script, named: nexusd, in order to install Nexus as a system service:

    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /etc/init.d/
pi@raspberrypi:/etc/init.d $ sudo vi nexusd

    Paste the following content into this new file, and save the file:

    #!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          nexusd
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start nexus daemon at boot time
# Description:       Enable nexus as a system service provided by daemon.
### END INIT INFO

NEXUS_HOME="/home/pi/nexus/nexus-3.15.2-01"
NEXUS_USER="pi"

. /lib/lsb/init-functions
log_daemon_msg "Nexus daemon called with: $@" "nexusd"

exec sudo -u "$NEXUS_USER" -- "$NEXUS_HOME/bin/nexus" "$@"

log_end_msg $?

    Here’s a file with the same content you could just copy into /etc/init.d/: nexusd

    Be sure to edit the path if your NEXUS_HOME is different (e. g. using a different version).

  2. Add execute permission to the new init.d script:

    pi@raspberrypi:/etc/init.d $ sudo chmod +x nexusd

  3. Setup init scripts using update-rc.d:

    pi@raspberrypi:/etc/init.d $ sudo update-rc.d nexusd defaults

  4. Test the function of the init scripts:

    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo service nexusd start

    or, just reboot the Pi and see if nexus is running after reboot:

    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo service nexusd status
...
Running ...

    You can ‘tail’ the nexus log file to watch startup progress using a command like this:

    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tail -n 500 -f ~/nexus/sonatype-work/nexus3/log/nexus.log

    If for any reason, you want to remove the deamon, run this command:

    pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo update-rc.d nexusd remove -f

Next step: Repository Test

Old Steps for JSW - for NX2 (no longer required)