ln -s /usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat.sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat

ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S63tomcat
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K37tomcat

Note: Remember to manually set CATALINA_HOME (for Tomcat 4.x) or TOMCAT_HOME (for Tomcat 3.x) and JAVA_HOME inside tomcat.sh, because I'm not sure that the shell script, if executes from there, will be able to guess the two variables.

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More info on starting Tomcat Alex Chaffee PREMIUM, May 21, 2001 Why this works: the init sequence calls each file in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S* with the parameter "start" during system startup, and each file in rc3.d/K* with the parameter "stop" during system shutdown. If you don't want to set TOMCAT_HOME inside tomcat.sh, then just make a small script inside /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat instead of a link. This will allow you to unpack a new version of Tomcat without having to edit the scripts again. E.g.: #!/bin/sh JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java; export JAVA_HOME TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat; export TOMCAT_HOME $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat.sh $* Please see the original forum thread -- http://www.jguru.com/forums/view.jsp?EID=420073 -- for some more great information, including a script for SuSE. See also How can I start Tomcat as a daemon in Solaris? Is this item helpful?  yes  no     Previous votes   Yes: 1  No: 0

See also Alex Chaffee PREMIUM, Dec 4, 2001 Can Tomcat be started as a user other than root under Unix? for another startup script Is this item helpful?  yes  no     Previous votes   Yes: 1  No: 0

For shell scripting guru: init.d shell script??? Yuriy Dudko, Dec 6, 2001  [replies:2] Does anybody have really good init.d shell script to start Tomcat as a daemon? First, I want to start it before Apache (using mod_jk). tomcat.sh does not wait when the tomcat daemon is up and loads httpd immediately. Second, using above mentioned technic on RedHat 7.1 I have all tomcat's messages on my tty. Therefore forced to start it by hand. Is this item helpful?  yes  no     Previous votes   Yes: 0  No: 0

Re: For shell scripting guru: init.d shell script??? Alessandro A. Garbagnati PREMIUM, Dec 6, 2001 Hi, I do not have any issue using tomcat.sh linked in the rc3.d directory of RedHat 7.1. You should read Tomcat's documentation to fix some of your problem. Tomcat does load the httpd server only if you leave the Tomcat's httpd server up in the server.xml configuration. Tomcat's message are on the tty if you do not activate the logging to the file, as explained in the top of the server.xml file. How to do these is covered either in the Jakarta-Tomcat's web site and in many FAQs. Do appropriate searches and you'll find the solution you're looking for. Is this item helpful?  yes  no     Previous votes   Yes: 0  No: 0

Re: For shell scripting guru: init.d shell script??? Karl Chu, Dec 21, 2001 I hope this is not too late, but I ran into the exact problem, and I solved it by using the following segment of script in my startup script. I use Slackware Linux (8.0), therefore, the script that I needed to change is "/etc/rc.d/rc.M" rather than "init.d" or whatever, but it is essentially the same idea. The rc.tomcat4 and rc.httpd below are just two shell scripts that I use to start up Tomcat and Apache. By the way, I am running Tomcat 4.0.1 and Apache 2.0.28 Beta3, if that is important in any way. # Start Tomcat: # ============= TOMCAT_STARTING_LOCK=/tmp/tomcat_starting.lock # Making sure the lock does not exist. In case we are not starting # Tomcat, this makes sure starting of Apache is not hung up forever. rm -f $TOMCAT_STARTING_LOCK if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat4 ]; then /bin/touch $TOMCAT_STARTING_LOCK /etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat4 start # While waiting for Tomcat to startup, # we sleep for some time before removing the lock /bin/sh -c "sleep 90; rm -f $TOMCAT_STARTING_LOCK" & fi # Start Web server: # ================= if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd ]; then # While the "Tomcat lock" is still there, we wait. Once the lock is # removed, we start Apache. # We also push the whole thing into the background, so that we don't stall # the startup of the rest of the stuff. /bin/sh -c "while [ -e $TOMCAT_STARTING_LOCK ]; do sleep 5; done; . /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start" & fi NOTICE the "&" above! You may try to start Tomcat manually in the foregound by running % $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh run and time how long does it take for Tomcat to finish starting up. I have to admit that waiting for a hard-coded 90 seconds is not ideal, but (in my case) I am not too concerned about how long it takes for the server to start up. Hope this helps. Is this item helpful?  yes  no     Previous votes   Yes: 0  No: 0

More startup scripts for Linux Alex Chaffee PREMIUM, Dec 17, 2002 Here's a very simple one. Make sure you put the right values in the environment variable settings: #!/bin/sh # chkconfig: 3 60 30 # description: Starts and stops Tomcat (running as root) mode=$1 export TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/java/tomcat export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/java/tomcat export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.4 case "$mode" in 'start') # Start daemon su -c "$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh $mode" root ;; 'stop') # Stop daemon. We use a signal here to avoid having to know the # root password. $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh $mode ;; *) # usage echo "usage: $0 start|stop" exit 1 ;; esac Here is one for Debian: http://www.luminas.co.uk/technology/cocoon/initscript.html Here's another for RedHat: http://miyazaki.ddo.jp/linuxserver/tomcatautostart.html And another for RedHat: http://webcse.pit-nagano.ac.jp/people/staff/koyama/lesson/ServerSideJava/ServerSideJava-8.html#ss8.3 note that you should not use killproc! Instead, do "catalina.sh stop" Is this item helpful?  yes  no     Previous votes   Yes: 0  No: 0