Download the latest apache commons daemon from Apache Commons Project Distributions.
Extract the commons daemon in <Cassandra installed directory>\bin.
Rename the extracted folder as daemon.
Add <Cassandra installed directory> as CASSANDRA_HOME in windows environment v...
Create the /etc/init.d/cassandra startup script.
Edit the contents of the file:
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 80 45
# description: Starts and stops Cassandra
# update daemon path to point to the cassandra executable
DAEMON=<Cassandra installed directory>/bin/cassandra
start() {
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