Various OS flavors will have different ways of doing this, so here's a collection point for scripts you might use in those environments.
Gentoo Linux and derivatives
File__Gentoo-handle.initscript works for me as
/etc/init.d/handle
for startup, but
stop
isn't working yet. This needs a companion
/etc/conf.d/handle
defining DSPACE_HOME and HANDLE_HOME to point to the DSpace installation directory.
Ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04 methods
Edit the file
/etc/rc.local
and the line
/home/dspace/bin/start-handle-server
. This is assuming of course that your DSpace home is:
/home/dspace
.
See: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Handle_Server for more info.