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+#
+# (C) Copyright 2015 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Company LP
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Modified from http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/zookeeperd
+NAME=zookeeper
+ZOOCFGDIR=/etc/zookeeper/conf
+
+# seems, that log4j requires the log4j.properties file to be in the classpath
+CLASSPATH="$ZOOCFGDIR:/usr/share/java/jline.jar:/usr/share/java/log4j-1.2.jar:/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar:/usr/share/java/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/usr/share/java/netty.jar:/usr/share/java/slf4j-api.jar:/usr/share/java/slf4j-log4j12.jar:/usr/share/java/zookeeper.jar"
+
+ZOOCFG="$ZOOCFGDIR/zoo.cfg"
+ZOO_LOG_DIR=/var/log/zookeeper
+USER=$NAME
+GROUP=$NAME
+PIDDIR=/var/run/$NAME
+PIDFILE=$PIDDIR/$NAME.pid
+SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
+JAVA=/usr/bin/java
+ZOOMAIN="org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain"
+ZOO_LOG4J_PROP="INFO,ROLLINGFILE"
+JMXLOCALONLY=false
+JAVA_OPTS=""