How to create a jenkins slave on a AWS linux box. Add the jenkins-slave to /etc/init.d/jenkins-slave

install.sh

sudo chkconfig --add jenkins-slave --level 2345
sudo chkconfig jenkins-slav on
chkconfig | grep jenkins-slave

jenkins-slave

#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 20 80
# description: Description comes here....

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

start() {
    echo "Start Jenkins Slave"
    sudo -u jenkins-slave java -jar /etc/slave.jar -jnlpUrl http://jenkins.yourserver.com:8080/computer/aws-dev/slave-agent.jnlp -secret 12a33d4c7b684a0f422bf2130651a62c7d55f244fceee9317d2af6b772f2ebcb
}

stop() {
    echo "Start Jenkins Slave"
    killproc slave.jar
}

case "$1" in
    start)
       start
       ;;
    stop)
       stop
       ;;
    restart)
       stop
       start
       ;;
    status)
       # code to check status of app comes here
       # example: status program_name
       ;;
    *)
       echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
esac

exit 0