linux: demonizing a process and killing it when you want

This is very useful for processes which do not write an PID file. This is stupid... but it could be work-arounded.

For example I want to start ant kill later the jasmine server, which is started this way:
bundle exec rake jasmine:server --trace

Java application as a daemon - initd start/stop template file

Your Java application is a daemon and you want to stop it more gracefully than "killall java".

The example below is what you need: