Running Solr under Daemontools Daemontools: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html Taken from http://markmail.org/message/s7ttlib253l2fyha install daemontools 2. create /etc/solr 3. create a user and group called solr 4. create shell script /etc/solr/run (edit to taste; I'm using the default jetty that comes with solr) #!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 cd /usr/local/apache-solr-1.3.0/example exec setuidgid solr java