http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/jira-Commented-OFBIZ-7796-Running-OFBiz-as-a-service-fails-tp4699486.html
Actually as Taher suggested, in production you can change the repository and not use jcenter but your own, this to avoid possible issues on jcenter. You though need to prodive a well formated repository. Accordind to
> Running OFBiz as a service fails
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> Key: OFBIZ-7796
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7796> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Affects Versions: Trunk
> Environment: Ubuntu 16.04, openjdk-8-jdk
> Reporter: Pierre Smits
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: OFBIZ-77796-rc.ofbiz.for.debian.patch, OFBIZ-7796-rc.ofbiz.for.debian-v2.patch
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> In a new ubuntu environment I performed a checkout from trunk and ran the loadDefault build script.
> After this had completed, I moved the ofbiz directory from my user folder to the /opt folder, and configured the Ubuntu environment to be able to run OFBiz as a service.
> This entails:
> * deploy a script in /etc/init.d
> * set the correct permissions of the service script
> * create the service user
> * changed the owner and ownergroup of the files and folders in /opt/ofbiz
> and then fire the service:
> sudo /etc/init.d/ofbiz start
> This normally starts the proces java -jar ofbiz.jar
> But now nothing happens.