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This script can be placed in your init.d folder to start as a service. I have it in /usr/local/sbin as it allows me to execute from any folder.

Also, please remember to chmod +x h.sh after saving the file in order to make it executable.

Usage: h.sh start | stop | restart

Produces similar output to service iptables start

h.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Full path to Hiawatha executable
SERVER_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/hiawatha

# Location of Hiawatha PID:
SERVER_PIDFILE=/var/run/hiawatha.pid

# Location of this scripts PID - you can leave this as default:
SCRIPT_PIDFILE=/tmp/h_script.pid

hiawatha_start() {
  echo -n "Starting Hiawatha:                                         "
  if [ -f $SERVER_PIDFILE ]; then
    PID='cat $SERVER_PIDFILE'
    echo -e "[`tput setaf 1`FAILED`tput setaf 7`]"
    echo -e "                                   Server already running: [" $(pidof $SERVER_BIN) "]"
    exit 2;
  else
    echo $$ > $SCRIPT_PIDFILE;
    #while [ 1 ]; do
       if [ ! $(pidof $SERVER_BIN) ]; then 
             $SERVER_BIN
             sleep 1
          if [ ! $(pidof $SERVER_BIN) ]; then
             echo -e "[`tput setaf 3` WARN `tput setaf 7`]"
             echo "Could not locate PID for ${SERVER_BIN}. If the server is running, please update $0 with the current PID file"
             rm $SCRIPT_PIDFILE 
             exit;
          fi
          echo `pidof $SERVER_BIN` > $SERVER_PIDFILE
       fi
    #sleep 1;
    #done;
  fi
  echo -e "[`tput setaf 2`  OK  `tput setaf 7`]"
}

hiawatha_stop() {
  echo -n "Stopping Hiawatha:                                         "
  if [ -r $SERVER_PIDFILE ]; then
   kill -15 `cat $SERVER_PIDFILE`
   sleep 1
   rm $SERVER_PIDFILE
   echo -e "[`tput setaf 2`  OK  `tput setaf 7`]"
  else
   killall $SERVER_BIN &> /dev/null
   echo -e "[`tput setaf 3` WARN `tput setaf 7`]"
   echo "Hard kill - Server PID not found"
  fi
}

hiawatha_restart() {
  echo "Restarting Server..."
  hiawatha_stop
  sleep 1
  hiawatha_start
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  hiawatha_start
  ;;
'stop')
  hiawatha_stop
  ;;
'restart')
  hiawatha_restart
  ;;
*)
  echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart"
esac

Disclaimer: Use at own risk.

Thanks, but the Hiawatha package already contains a start and stop script. It's located in the extra directory inside the source package.