Run open office as service in Ubuntu.

First You have to create a service for start openoffice. I have created a service under /etc/init.d it called OpenOffice. Script looks like

#!/bin/bash
   
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          dovecot
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: dovecot
# Description:       dovecot pop & imap daemon
### END INIT INFO
    # openoffice.org headless server script
    #
    # chkconfig: 2345 80 30
    # description: headless openoffice server script
    # processname: openoffice
    #
    # Author: Vic Vijayakumar
    # Modified by Federico Ch. Tomasczik
    #
    OOo_HOME=/opt/openoffice4/program
    SOFFICE_PATH=$OOo_HOME/soffice
    PIDFILE=/home/taria/soffice.bin.pid

    set -e

    case "$1" in
    start)
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
    echo "OpenOffice headless server has already started."
    sleep 5
    exit
    fi
    echo "Starting OpenOffice headless server"
    $SOFFICE_PATH -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null 2>&1
    touch $PIDFILE
    ;;
    stop)
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
    echo "Stopping OpenOffice headless server."
    killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin
    rm -f $PIDFILE
    exit
    fi
    echo "Openoffice headless server is not running."
    exit
    ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    esac
    exit 0
Then Exit the text editor saving the file as you do.  Now make the script executable:

sudo chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/OpenOffice

Make it start automatically on reboot by executing this command:

sudo update-rc.d OpenOffice defaults

It can now auto start during OS boot. you can also start it by executing

/etc/init.d/OpenOffice start
/etc/init.d/OpenOffice stop