java and start-stop-daemon

Hi all,

I'm trying to write a startup script for helma but start-stop-daemon
gives me trouble here (I briefly looked at the jboss and jetty scripts
but they don't use start-stop-daemon). As far as I can tell I run the
exact same command from my init-script and via commandline, nevertheless
the former fails with no error and the one issued from the prompt
succeeds. Is java+start-stop-daemon a no-go?

works from command prompt:
gentoo ~ # start-stop-daemon -v --start --chuid helma --background
--pidfile /var/run/helma-default.pid --make-pidfile --startas
/opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java -- -Djava.headless=True -Xmx64m -Xms64m
-jar /opt/helma-1.5.1/launcher.jar -h /opt/helma-1.5.1/ -w 8080

-> app is running


gentoo ~ # /etc/init.d/helma start
 * Starting checkconfig with instance default
 * This is passed to java: -Djava.headless=True -Xms64m -Xmx64m -jar
/opt/helma-1.5.1/launcher.jar  -h /opt/helma-1.5.1/ -w 8080
 * Starting helma instance default. ...
Starting /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java...
Detatching to start /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.08/bin/java...done. [ ok ]

-> app not running


thanks
 Paul

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