[Øyvind Harboe] > Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Does it help to use 'exec' in the command line, to get rid of the extra process? What about adding pidfile support to jetty? It sound like the correct place to fix it. And please consider adding dependency information using the LSB format in the init.d file. See <URL:http://wiki.debian.net/?LSBInitScripts> for some clues.