Life of an Admin

Instead of manually starting Tomcat each time, you can configure it to start at boot.

1. Save tomcat start / stop script
Copy and paste the following script into your text editor:

###############################################
# This is the init script for starting up the
# Tomcat server
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 10
# description: Starts and stops the Tomcat daemon.
#

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

# Get config.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ] && exit 0

tomcat=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat
startup=$tomcat/bin/startup.sh
shutdown=$tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk

start(){
echo -n $"Starting Tomcat service: "
#daemon -c
$startup
RETVAL=$?
echo
}

stop(){
action $"Stopping Tomcat service: " $shutdown
RETVAL=$?
echo
}

restart(){
stop
start
}


# See how we were called.
case "" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
# This doesn't work ;)
status tomcat
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: @@@SMARTY:TRIM:PRE@@@ {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

##############################
############ end ############


Edit the lines that start with tomcat and export to match where you installed tomcat and jdk.

I am not the original creator if this script and i got it through a friend. I modified it a little to work in my case.

2. Save to /etc/init.d and chmod

Save the edited file above to /etc/init.d directory as "tomcat" or any other name you want. Now allow execute access to the script.

3. chmod a+x tomcat

4. Add to appropriate run level directories
chkconfig --add tomcat
chkconfig tomcat on


Thats it. You might want to see which run levels you want to add this.