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how to get Tomcat to run on startup?

Thank you to all of you who helped me get Slackware installed and running.

I just installed Apache Tomcat, and it runs fine, but I can't seem to get it to run on startup (boot up) of the machine. What else do I need to do?

Just like I did successfully with MySQL when I installed it, I added the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.M (after the code which launches Apache):

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat ]' then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat start
fi

Manually, I created the rc.tomcat (owned by root:root with -rwxr-xr-x permissions) and it contains:

case "$1" in
'start')
/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh
;;
'stop')
/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/shutdown.sh
;;
'restart')
/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/shutdown.sh
sleep 3
/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh
;;
*)
echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"
esac

Now, if I login as root and type "/etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat start" from the command line, Tomcat starts just fine. So I guess my script is okay. If I copy/paste the code piece inside rc.M into a temporary file and execute it, Tomcat starts fine. So why doesn't Tomcat startup automatically when I first boot the machine? What else do I need to do?

Is there a log file somewhere that I can look at? Nothing in /apache-tomcat-5.5.17/logs seems to be helpful.

...don't worry, my script really does have the ; instead of the '

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat ]; then

You should use:

Code:

export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java

export CATALINA_HOME=/path/to/tomcat

before anthing else in your script, since those env. variables are not defined yet.

Regards

That did it!

I had the export statements in /etc/profile, but I guess that must be read after /etc/rc.d/rc.M, because moving the export statements to rc.M just prior to calling /etc/rc.d/rc.tomcat did the trick.

Maybe this is basic stuff to you folks, but I don't know how I would hae figured it out as a newbie without you. Thanks!

Hi,

I have installed Tomcat (following Marty Hall's excellent guide) and everything works fine.

My question is in relation to the startup.sh and catalina.sh files. Why do I need to be root user to start Tomcat? Is there a way to allow the local user to do this?

The only thing I've spotted is that the file tomcat-users.xml is root:root - all else is localuser:users.

So my problem is that I have to su - root each time I need to control the server.

Regards,
Lee.

I have a tomcat user and tomcat group and I just did chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 - then in my start up script I have:

Code:

/bin/su - tomcat -c /usr/local/bin/start-tomcat.sh

start-tomcat.sh has the environment variables I need and calls the Tomcat startup stuff.

Thanks for this Steve.

I had created symbolic links to the startup/shutdown scripts and placed them in my home directory.

I also had chgrp/chown the tomcat installation directory in favour of my local user - so I thought that would work.

Does your tomcat user have (root like) higher privileges than a default user?

I must admit that I'm not too familiar with the su options and I guess I can substitute root for your tomcat on my machine (not recommended I know).

Regards,
Lee.

My tomcat user is a regular user, but for other users in the tomcat group I had to run the following so they could write to the Tomcat directories:

Code:

find /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 -type d -exec chmod -c g+ws {} \;

That gave write permissions to the tomcat group to all Tomcat directories as well as making sure the group ownership of files stays at tomcat. My install is for dev/testing so I let the users write to config files, libs, etc. as well as the webapps directory. Nobody but the administrator has rights to the acceptance test and production boxes...

tomcat startup script

Hi all,

I got which i wrote for my tomcat version 5.0.27 using jsdk 1.4.2 to startup in /etc/init.d but i have some problem with it. Is there any kind soul who can me here. thanks amillion in advance.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

 #

 # Source function library.

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions



export JAVA_HOME=/opt/j2sdk

export CLASSPATH=.:/opt/j2sdk/lib/tools.jar:/opt/j2sdk/lib/rt.jar

export PATH=/opt/j2sdk/bin:/j2sdk/bin:$PATH



RETVAL=$?



JAVA_OPTS="-Xincgc -Xms64m -Xmx512m"

SITE_ROOT="/opt/tomcat"

SITES='ls ${SITE_ROOT}



  case "$1" in

    start)

        for x in ${SITES}  

          do

            CATALINA_BASE="${SITE_ROOT}/${x}/tomcat"

                if [ -f $CATALINA_BASE/bin/startup.sh];

                  then

                        echo "Starting Server: ${x}"

                        JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS}"

                        $CATALINA_BASE/bin/startup.sh

                fi

                done

                ;;

                stop)

                  for x in ${SITES}  

                  do

                    CATALINA_BASE="${SITE_ROOT}/${x}/tomcat"

                        if [ -f $CATALINA_BASE/bin/shutdown.sh];

                          then

                                echo "Shutting down Server: ${x}"

                                $CATALINA_BASE/bin/shutdown.sh

                        fi

                  done

                  ;;

                  *)

                  echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop}"

                  exit 1

                  ;;

                  esac

                  exit $RETVAL