Tomcat start up script.

1.Ensure there is tomcat user and it has read, write permission to the $CATALINA_HOME/conf and $CATALINA_HOME/logs directories.

2. Also make sure that you have set $JAVA_HOME.

3. Ensure that the tomcat processes are ran by the tomcat user.

4. Save the following scripts as /etc/init.d/tomcat. They will automatically be read and run at boot time.

Check the log files if it does not start properly.

Make a soft link to it from /etc/rc5.d such as:

cd /etc/rc5.d
sudo ln -s /etc//init.d/tomcat S71tomcat


/etc/init.d/tomcat

#!/bin/bash
#
# tomcat      
#
# chkconfig:
# description: Start up the Tomcat servlet engine.

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions


RETVAL=$?
CATALINA_HOME="/usr/local/tomcat/"

case "$1" in
 start)
        if [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh ];
          then
   echo $"Starting Tomcat"
            /bin/su tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
        fi
;;
 stop)
        if [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh ];
          then
   echo $"Stopping Tomcat"
            /bin/su tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
        fi
  ;;
 *)
  echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit $RETVAL


Inspired from http://www.raibledesigns.com/