Mule 3.x configuration as a Ubuntu service

Bash commands 1

$ sudo vim /etc/init.d/mule

Bash commands 2

$ sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/mule
$ sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/mule
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mule start

MULE_HOME is set to /opt/mule-standalone-3.8.0
Starting Mule...

mule script wrapper

#!/bin/bash

# Set JDK related environment
# bachman: I assume here, that you already have JAVA_HOME variable available. In that case, you can also skip reassignment.
JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

# Set Mule related environment
MULE_HOME=/opt/mule-standalone-3.8.0
PATH=$PATH:$MULE_HOME/bin

# Export environment variables
export JAVA_HOME MULE_HOME MULE_LIB PATH

# Invoke Mule
su -l mule $MULE_HOME/bin/mule $1