Notes

Installing ActiveMQ
Fetch and unpack ActiveMQ
cd /opt
wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org//activemq/5.15.9/apache-activemq-5.15.9-bin.tar.gz
tar zxf apache-activemq-5.15.9-bin.tar.gz
ln -s apache-activemq-5.15.9 activemq

Create the ActiveMQ user and set ownership
useradd activemq -d /opt/activemq -M
chown activemq: -R /opt/apache-activemq-5.15.9
chown activemq: -h /opt/activemq
(check for pkill)
Create the init script and enable it
Create a file, /etc/init.d/activemq, with the following content:
#!/bin/bash
#
# activemq Starts ActiveMQ.
#
#
# chkconfig: 345 88 12
# description: ActiveMQ is a JMS Messaging Queue Server.
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: activemq
### END INIT INFO

## Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source LSB function library.
if [ -r /lib/lsb/init-functions ]; then
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
else
exit 1
fi

DISTRIB_ID=`lsb_release -i -s 2>/dev/null`

NAME="$(basename $0)"
unset ISBOOT
if [ "${NAME:0:1}" = "S" -o "${NAME:0:1}" = "K" ]; then
NAME="${NAME:3}"
ISBOOT="1"
fi

# For SELinux we need to use 'runuser' not 'su'
if [ -x "/sbin/runuser" ]; then
SU="/sbin/runuser"
else
SU="/bin/su"
fi

. /etc/sysconfig/activemq

RETVAL=0

umask 077

start() {
echo -n $"Starting ActiveMQ: "
$SU - $ACTIVEMQ_USER -c "${ACTIVEMQ_START}" >> $ACTIVEMQ_LOG 2>&1 &
RETVAL="$?"
if [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ]; then
log_success_msg
touch /var/lock/subsys/${NAME}
else
log_failure_msg
fi

return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
pkill -u activemq java
}
restart() {
stop
sleep 5
start
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
restart
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit $?

Create a file, /etc/sysconfig/activemq, with the following content:
# sysconfig file

# Oracle
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default

ACTIVEMQ_USER=activemq
ACTIVEMQ_BASE=/opt/activemq
ACTIVEMQ_START="${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/bin/activemq start"
ACTIVEMQ_STOP="${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/bin/activemq stop"
ACTIVEMQ_LOG=/var/log/activemq/activemq.log
#ACTIVEMQ_LOG=/dev/null
ACTIVEMQ_START="JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME} ACTIVEMQ_OPTS="-Xmx8g -Dorg.apache.activemq.UseDedicatedTaskRunner=false" ${ACTIVEMQ_START}"

export ACTIVEMQ_USER ACTIVEMQ_BASE ACTIVEMQ_START ACTIVEMQ_STOP ACTIVEMQ_LOG
ACTIVEMQ_OPTS JAVA_HOME

Create the logrotation file, /etc/logrotate.d/activemq:

/var/log/activemq/activemq.log {
missingok
notifempty
compress
size 1M
daily
create 0600 activemq activemq
}

Enable and start the service
mkdir -p /var/log/activemq
chmod +x /etc/init.d/activemq
chkconfig activemq on

[Unit]
Description=ActiveMq_Autostart_script
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=always
User=root
ExecStart=/opt/activemq/bin/activemq start
ExecStop=/opt/activemq/bin/activemq stop
ExecReload=/opt/activemq/bin/activemq restart
TimeoutStartSec=0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
/etc/systemd/system/