Startup script for Adobe CQ 5.6, tested on CentOS 6.5

cq5 startup script

+-----------------------+
| /etc/rc.d/init.d/cq5  |
+-----------------------+

#!/bin/bash
#
# cq5     Startup script for Adobe AEM/CQ5
#
# chkconfig: 345 80 20
# description: Startup script for Adobe AEM/CQ5
#
# config: /etc/default/$NAME
#

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

NAME=cq5
DEFAULT=/etc/default/$NAME
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Do NOT change anything after this line. To change any default values edit the $DEFAULT file defined above.
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ -r "$DEFAULT" ] && . $DEFAULT

if [ -z "$CQ_ROOT" ]; then
   echo "No CQ_ROOT set."
   exit 1
fi

if [ ! -d "$CQ_ROOT" ]; then
   echo "The defined CQ root directory [$CQ_ROOT] does not exist."
   echo "Please make sure it points to a valid CQ5 root directory."
   echo "A valid root directory contains the CQ5 jar file, license.properties and crx-quickstart subfolder."
   exit 1
else
   CQ_QUICKSTART=$CQ_ROOT/crx-quickstart
fi

if [ -z $CQ_USER ]; then
   CQ_USER="cq5"
fi

if [ -z $CQ_JARFILE ]; then
   CQ_JARFILE=`ls $CQ_QUICKSTART/app/*.jar | head -1`
fi

start() {
   echo "Starting Adobe AEM/CQ5"

   if [ -z "$CQ_PORT" ]; then
      CQ_PORT=4502
   fi

   if [ -z "$CQ_RUNMODE" ]; then
      CQ_RUNMODE=author,local
   fi

   if [ -z "$CQ_JAAS_CONFIG" ]; then
      CQ_JAAS_CONFIG="etc/jaas.config"
   fi

   if [ -z "$CQ_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT" ]; then
      CQ_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT=8192
   fi
   
   if [ $CQ_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT ]; then
      CURRENT_ULIMIT=`ulimit`
      if [ $CURRENT_ULIMIT != "unlimited" ]; then
         if [ $CURRENT_ULIMIT -lt $CQ_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT ]; then
            echo "ulimit ${CURRENT_ULIMIT} is too small - must be at least ${CQ_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT}"
            exit 1
         fi
      fi
   fi

   START_OPTS="start -c $CQ_QUICKSTART -i launchpad"

   if [ $CQ_PORT ]; then
      START_OPTS="$START_OPTS -p $CQ_PORT"
   fi

   if [ $CQ_RUNMODE ]; then
      CQ_JVM_OPTS="$CQ_JVM_OPTS -Dsling.run.modes=$CQ_RUNMODE"
   fi

   if [ $CQ_HOST ]; then
      CQ_JVM_OPTS="$CQ_JVM_OPTS -Dorg.apache.felix.http.host=$CQ_HOST"
      START_OPTS="$START_OPTS -a $CQ_HOST"
   fi

   if [ $CQ_USE_JAAS ]; then
      CQ_JVM_OPTS="$CQ_JVM_OPTS -Djava.security.auth.login.config=$CQ_JAAS_CONFIG"
   fi

   daemon --user=$CQ_USER "java $CQ_JVM_OPTS -jar $CQ_JARFILE $START_OPTS 2>&1 > /dev/null &"
}

case "$1" in
   start)
      start
   ;;
   stop)
      echo "Stopping Adobe AEM/CQ5"
      daemon "java -jar $CQ_JARFILE stop -c $CQ_QUICKSTART &"
   ;;
   *)
      echo "Usage: service cq5 {start|stop}"
      exit 1
  ;;
esac

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| /etc/default/cq5      |
+-----------------------+

CQ_USER=cq5
CQ_ROOT=/data/cq5/author1

CQ_PORT=4501
#CQ_HOST=
#CQ_INTERFACE=
CQ_RUNMODE=author,crx,testmode
#CQ_JARFILE=''
#CQ_USE_JAAS='true'
#CQ_JAAS_CONFIG=
#CQ_FILE_SIZE_LIMIT=

CQ_JVM_OPTS="-server"
CQ_JVM_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true $CQ_JVM_OPTS"
CQ_JVM_OPTS="-XX:NewRatio=1 -XX:SurvivorRatio=12 $CQ_JVM_OPTS"
CQ_JVM_OPTS="-XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 $CQ_JVM_OPTS"
CQ_JVM_OPTS="-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/tmp $CQ_JVM_OPTS"
CQ_JVM_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp $CQ_JVM_OPTS"

CQ_JVM_OPTS="-Xms8192m -Xmx8192m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m $CQ_JVM_OPTS"

CQ_JVM_OPTS="-Djackrabbit.maxQueuedEvents=1000000 $CQ_JVM_OPTS"
CQ_JVM_OPTS="-Dcom.day.crx.persistence.tar.IndexMergeDelay=0 $CQ_JVM_OPTS"

# only activate when debugging is required
#CQ_DEBUG_PORT=50505
#CQ_JVM_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=$CQ_DEBUG_PORT,server=y,suspend=n $CQ_JVM_OPTS"
# in case of heap errors increase the heap space or attach the -nofork command to CQ_JVM_OPTS

will edit for Lubuntu