Once you get things running you may want to add Tomcat as a Linux Service. This can be done as follows:
1 - Stop any Tomcat servers that are running.
2 - Create a Start/Stop Script like the following. Simply cut and paste the following into your favorite text editor (between and not including the lines of asterisks) .
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
# This doesn't work ;)
status tomcat
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
esac
3 - Edit the lines that start with ‘tomcat’ and ‘export’ to match where you installed Tomcat and your jdk.
4 - Save to /etc/init.d and chmod
Save the edited file above to /etc/init.d directory as "tomcat" (at least on most newer releases since /etc/init.d is a standard now). Then you have to allow execute access to the script, so run:
chmod a+x tomcat
5 - Add to appropriate run level directories
The easy way to do this is to just simply run:
chkconfig --add tomcat
6 - Start the Tomcat service, and you should be off to the races!
Good luck,
Paul.
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Once you get things running you may want to add Tomcat as a Linux Service. This can be done as follows:
1 - Stop any Tomcat servers that are running.
2 - Create a Start/Stop Script like the following. Simply cut and paste the following into your favorite text editor (between and not including the lines of asterisks) .
**************************************************
# This is the init script for starting up the
# Jakarta Tomcat server
#
# chkconfig: 345 91 10
# description: Starts and stops the Tomcat daemon.
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Get config.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ "${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 "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
# This doesn't work ;)
status tomcat
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
**************************************************
3 - Edit the lines that start with ‘tomcat’ and ‘export’ to match where you installed Tomcat and your jdk.
4 - Save to /etc/init.d and chmod
Save the edited file above to /etc/init.d directory as "tomcat" (at least on most newer releases since /etc/init.d is a standard now). Then you have to allow execute access to the script, so run:
chmod a+x tomcat
5 - Add to appropriate run level directories
The easy way to do this is to just simply run:
chkconfig --add tomcat
6 - Start the Tomcat service, and you should be off to the races!
Good luck,
Paul.