diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5e5ea0c..4f029d3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -268,34 +268,6 @@
                     <shortRevisionLength>6</shortRevisionLength>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>2.8</version>
-                <executions>
-                <execution>
-                    <id>copy</id>
-                    <phase>package</phase>
-                    <goals>
-                        <goal>copy</goal>
-                    </goals>
-                    <configuration>
-                        <artifactItems>
-                            <artifactItem>
-                                <groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
-                                <artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
-                                <version>${storm.version}</version>
-                                <type>jar</type>
-                                <overWrite>false</overWrite>
-                            </artifactItem>
-                        </artifactItems>
-                        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
-                        <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
-                        <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
-                      </configuration>
-                    </execution>
-                </executions>
-            </plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <artifactId>jdeb</artifactId>
                 <groupId>org.vafer</groupId>
@@ -317,14 +289,8 @@
                                 </data>
                                 <data>
                                     <type>file</type>
-                                    <src>${project.build.directory}/storm-core-${storm.version}.jar
-                                    </src>
-                                    <dst>/opt/mon/storm-core-${storm.version}.jar</dst>
-                                </data>
-                                <data>
-                                    <type>file</type>
-                                    <src>${project.basedir}/src/deb/init/mon-thresh.conf</src>
-                                    <dst>/etc/init/mon-thresh.conf</dst>
+                                    <src>${project.basedir}/src/deb/init/mon-thresh</src>
+                                    <dst>/etc/init.d/mon-thresh</dst>
                                 </data>
                                 <data>
                                     <type>file</type>
diff --git a/src/deb/control/postinst b/src/deb/control/postinst
index 51952ef..15d0d58 100755
--- a/src/deb/control/postinst
+++ b/src/deb/control/postinst
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 case "$1" in
   configure)
+    chmod +x /etc/init.d/mon-thresh
     if ! [ `getent passwd thresh` ]; then
       adduser --system --group thresh
     fi
diff --git a/src/deb/init/mon-thresh b/src/deb/init/mon-thresh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..59f837d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/deb/init/mon-thresh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+#### BEGIN INIT INFO
+## Provides:          mon-thresh
+## Required-Start:    $nimbus
+## Required-Stop:     
+## Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+## Default-Stop:      
+## Short-Description: Monitoring threshold engine running under storm
+## Description:
+#### END INIT INFO
+
+case "$1" in
+    start)
+      sudo -Hu thresh /opt/storm/current/bin/storm jar /opt/mon/mon-thresh.jar com.hpcloud.mon.ThresholdingEngine /etc/mon/mon-thresh-config.yml thresh-cluster
+    ;;
+    stop)
+      sudo -Hu thresh /opt/storm/current/bin/storm kill thresh-cluster
+      # The above command returns but actually takes awhile loop watching status
+      while true; do
+        sudo -Hu thresh /opt/storm/current/bin/storm list |grep thresh-cluster
+        if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then break; fi
+        sleep 1
+      done
+    ;;
+    status)
+        sudo -Hu thresh /opt/storm/current/bin/storm list |grep thresh-cluster
+    ;;
+    restart)
+      $0 stop
+      $0 start
+    ;;
+esac
diff --git a/src/deb/init/mon-thresh.conf b/src/deb/init/mon-thresh.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 50564bd..0000000
--- a/src/deb/init/mon-thresh.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# Startup script for the mon-thresh
-
-description "MON threshold engine java app"
-start on runlevel [2345]
-
-console log
-respawn
-
-setgid thresh
-setuid thresh
-
-script
-
-    if [ -r /etc/default/mon-thresh ]; then
-            . /etc/default/mon-thresh
-    fi
-
-    exec /usr/bin/java -Xmx8g -Dlogback.configurationFile=/etc/mon/logback.xml -DLOGDIR=${LOGDIR:-/tmp} -cp "/opt/mon/*" com.hpcloud.mon.ThresholdingEngine /etc/mon/mon-thresh-config.yml mon-thresh local
-
-end script
-
-
-