starting/stopping teamcity as a service on linux

I was looking for this as well, and some googling turned up the following:

http://whenkaizenstrike.blogspot.com/2009/12/teamcity-add-service-to-fedora.html

Also, if you are in an upstart-based Linux distro, you might try your luck with this instead (it's oriented at the buildagent, but you can easily tweak it for the server itself):

http://infernus.org/2009/02/linux-love-for-teamcity/

Please watch/vote for http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/TW-8175.