A Solr service script example based on http://stackoverflow.com/a/8189312/804314.

solr

#!/bin/sh

# Service script to start|status|stop|restart Solr Server.


SOLR_HOME=/var/solr/
SOLR_LIB=/usr/local/lib/solr/
JETTY_HOME=${SOLR_LIB}example/


start () {
    echo -n "Starting solr..."

    daemon \
      --user=www-data \
      --chdir=$SOLR_HOME \
      --respawn \
      --name=solr \
      --verbose \
      --command="java -Dsolr.solr.lib=${SOLR_LIB} -Dsolr.solr.home=${SOLR_HOME}solr/ -Djetty.home=${JETTY_HOME} -jar ${JETTY_HOME}start.jar --daemon"

    RETVAL=$?
    if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
    then
        echo "done."
    else
        echo "failed. See error code for more information."
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}


stop () {
    echo -n "Stopping solr..."

    daemon \
      --user=www-data \
      --stop \
      --name=solr \
      --verbose

    RETVAL=$?

    if [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
    then
        echo "Done."
    else
        echo "Failed. See error code for more information."
    fi
    return $RETVAL
}


restart () {
    daemon \
      --user=www-data \
      --restart \
      --name=solr \
      --verbose
}


status () {
    daemon \
      --user=www-data \
      --running \
      --name=solr \
      --verbose
    return $?
}


case "$1" in
    start)
        start
    ;;
    status)
        status
    ;;
    stop)
        stop
    ;;
    restart)
        restart
    ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: solr {start|status|stop|restart}"
        exit 3
    ;;
esac


exit $RETVAL