Does this help you ? https://github.com/acobley/CassandraStartup
it was built for Raspbian, but might help you. Andy On 19 Mar 2013, at 11:10, Roshan <codeva...@gmail.com<mailto:codeva...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi I want to start the cassandra as a service. At the moment it is starting as a background task. Cassandra version: 1.0.11 OS: CentOS 5.X Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/How-to-configure-linux-service-for-Cassandra-tp7586474.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org<mailto:cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org> mailing list archive at Nabble.com<http://Nabble.com>. The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096