sysv init.d script for TeamCity (tested on Ubuntu)

teamcity

#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 235 10 90
# description: TeamCity startup script
#

TEAMCITY_USER=teamcity
TEAMCITY_DIR=/home/teamcity/TeamCity/
TEAMCITY_SERVER=bin/teamcity-server.sh

TEAMCITY_DATADIR="/home/teamcity/.BuildServer"

CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Addresses"

case "$1" in
start)
    iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8543
    sudo -u $TEAMCITY_USER -s -- sh -c "cd $TEAMCITY_DIR; TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH=$TEAMCITY_DATADIR CATALINA_OPTS='$CATALINA_OPTS' $TEAMCITY_SERVER start"
    ;;
stop)
    sudo -u $TEAMCITY_USER -s -- sh -c "cd $TEAMCITY_DIR; TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH=$TEAMCITY_DATADIR CATALINA_OPTS='$CATALINA_OPTS' $TEAMCITY_SERVER stop"
    ;;
*)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Write that file to /etc/init.d/teamcity and run:

chmod +x /etc/init.d/teamcity
update-rc.d teamcity

And you're golden.

The -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.net.preferIPv4Addresses is a workaround for TeamCity's Tomcat binding tcp6 listeners rather than tcp listeners. If you are actually using IPv6 then you'll want to comment out CATALINA_OPTS.

Running on Debian 7.5 (wheezy) I had to run the following update-rc.d teamcity defaults to set it up to run.