Init.d script to start Hudson doesn't run at boot on Ubuntu

I'm trying to start Hudson on Ubuntu automatically on boot with an init.d script. The script works fine when invoked manually (ie with ./hudson start), and has update-rc.d-generated sym-links in rc2-rc5, but it doesn't start on rebooting. Does anyone know what might be caus开发者_StackOverflowing it to not work? The script is as follows (the hudson.log logfile is created at boot, but doesn't contain any output):

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hudson
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start Hudson at boot
# Description:       Start the Hudson CI server at boot
### END INIT INFO

CTL=/home/jcss-dev/hudson.war
LOGFILE=/home/jcss-dev/hudson.log

case "$1" in
    start)
                pid=`/bin/ps -Af | /bin/grep "hudson.war" | /bin/grep -v /bin/grep | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'`
                if [ "$pid" = "" ]; then
      echo -n "Starting Hudson... "
                    su - the-user-account-name -c "/usr/bin/java -jar $CTL > $LOGFILE 2>&1 &"
  else
      echo -n "Hudson is already running"
  fi
        ;;
    stop)
  pid=`/bin/ps -Af | /bin/grep "hudson.war" | /bin/grep -v /bin/grep | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'`
  if [ "$pid" != "" ]; then
      echo -n "Stopping Hudson... "
      kill -9 $pid
  else
      echo "Hudson is not running"
  fi
        ;;
    status)
                pid=`/bin/ps -Af | /bin/grep "hudson.war" | /bin/grep -v /bin/grep | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'`
                if [ "$pid" != "" ]; then
      echo -n "Hudson is running"
  else
      echo -n "Hudson is not running"
  fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage $0 start|stop|status"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

if its run manually, meaning there is nothing wrong with the script... make sure you copy/move it in /etc/init.d folder and check your link files in rc[2345].d dirs.

maybe this question should be in serverfault.com

Have you added it to rc??

sudo update-rc.d hudson.sh defaults

It works for me...

At the risk of asking too basic of a question, I'm assuming the the su command in the start section of your script has "jcss-dev" in place of "the-user-account-name"?