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= Few steps to enable Rserve daemon at startup of your Linux server =

  # install [R] (tested with 2.9)
  # install Rserve as user:
  # create `Rserve.sh` startup script in `/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9/Rserve`:
{{{
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/R CMD Rserve --vanilla
}}}
  # check that `Rserve.sh` is executable, try to launch it and verify Rserve is available (`ps -u user | grep Rserve` should return something, then kill Rserve)
  # create as root `/etc/init.d/Rserved`
{{{
#!/bin/sh

echo " * Launching Rserve daemon ..."

RSERVE_HOME=/home/user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9/Rserve

start-stop-daemon --start --chdir $RSERVE_HOME --chuid user --exec $RSERVE_HOME/Rserve.sh > /tmp/Rserve.log 2>&1 &
echo " * Rserve daemon running ..."

exit 0
}}}
  # check that `Rserved` is executable, try to launch it and verify Rserve is available (`ps -u user | grep Rserve` should return something, then kill Rserve)
  # link Rserved in rc2.d (for ubuntu, maybe other rc*.d for others linux distribution): as root `cd /etc/rc2.d; ln -s ../init.d/Rserved S99Rserved`
  # reboot your server to verify Rserve was correclty launched at startup.
Now, you can use this linux server as a backend computing engine for your Java applications on desktop.