Upstart script for making hive as a service

Put this .conf file in your /etc/init folder. 

description     "Hive Server"

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]

expect fork 

script
  echo "Starting Hive Service"
  export HIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/hive-0.11.0-bin
  export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce
  export HIVE_CONF_DIR=/etc/hive/conf/hiveserver1

  $HIVE_HOME/bin/hive --service hiveserver > /var/log/hive/hiveserver.out 2>&1 &
end script


To start/stop/check your service you can use
start hiveserver
stop hiveserver
status hiveserver