Init.d script that I uses to start akka as daemon in Centos 6.4

service-init

#!/bin/sh
#
# description
#
# chkconfig:   3 95 4
# description: description

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description:
# Description:
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

prog="test-service"
class="YourAkkaMainClass"

AKKA_HOME="/var/lib/project/target/dist"
AKKA_CLASSPATH="$AKKA_HOME/config:$AKKA_HOME/lib/*"
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms128M -Xmx256M -Xss1M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -XX:+UseParallelGC"
exec="java $JAVA_OPTS -cp \"$AKKA_CLASSPATH\" -Dakka.home=\"$AKKA_HOME\" akka.kernel.Main \"$class\""

[ -e /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog

start() {
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
    daemon "$exec >> /var/log/${prog}.log 1>&1 &"
    retval=$?
    pid=`ps x -o "%p ;;; %a" | awk '{FS = " ;;; "; if ($2 ~ " '${class}'$") {print $1};}'`

    if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
        echo $pid > "/var/run/${prog}.pid"
    fi
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
    return $retval
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
    killproc -p /var/run/${prog}.pid
    retval=$?
    echo
    [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile /var/run/$prog.pid
    return $retval
}

restart() {
    stop
    start
}

reload() {
    restart
}

force_reload() {
    restart
}

rh_status() {
    status $prog
}

rh_status_q() {
    rh_status >/tmp/status 2>&1
}


case "$1" in
    start)
        rh_status_q && exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    stop)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        $1
        ;;
    restart)
        $1
        ;;
    reload)
        rh_status_q || exit 7
        $1
        ;;
    force-reload)
        force_reload
        ;;
    status)
        rh_status
        ;;
    condrestart|try-restart)
        rh_status_q || exit 0
        restart
        ;;
    *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload}"
        exit 2
esac
exit $?