If your profile is setting a variable called $catalina_home, and that variable is being expected by the startup programs, then that means you need to set that variable in your startup scripts.

If I properly get your point,

my profile has catalina_home set to
echo $CATALINA_HOME
/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.8

and my sustart.sh file in init.d has a few lines of code

# Get standard Java environment variables
if $os400; then
# -r will Only work on the os400 if the files are:
# 1. owned by the user
# 2. owned by the PRIMARY group of the user
# this will not work if the user belongs in secondary groups
BASEDIR="$CATALINA_HOME"
. "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setclasspath.sh
else
if [ -r "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setclasspath.sh ]; then
BASEDIR="$CATALINA_HOME"
. "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setclasspath.sh
else
echo "Cannot find $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setclasspath.sh"
echo "This file is needed to run this program"
exit 1
fi

Error I get is

# /sbin/service sustart start
Cannot find /etc/bin/setclasspath.sh
This file is needed to run this program

Any guess

It's not even a guess... your script keeps calling $CATALINA_HOME, and you haven't set it, so set it.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-5.html

I guess there should be some scripting that set the CATALINA_HOME.This a copy of Catalina.sh that comes with apache-tomcat version.


# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
PRG="$0"

while [ -h "$PRG" ]; do
ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
if expr "$link" : '/.*' > /dev/null; then
PRG="$link"
else
PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`/"$link"
fi
done

# Get standard environment variables
PRGDIR=`dirname "$PRG"`

# Only set CATALINA_HOME if not already set
[ -z "$CATALINA_HOME" ] && CATALINA_HOME=`cd "$PRGDIR/.." >/dev/null; pwd`

# Ensure that any user defined CLASSPATH variables are not used on startup,
# but allow them to be specified in setenv.sh, in rare case when it is needed.
CLASSPATH=

SETENVPATH="${CATALINA_BASE:-$CATALINA_HOME}"
if [ -r "$SETENVPATH/bin/setenv.sh" ]; then
. "$SETENVPATH/bin/setenv.sh"
elif [ -r "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh" ]; then
. "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh"
fi

# For Cygwin, ensure paths are in UNIX format before anything is touched
if $cygwin; then
[ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] && JAVA_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$JAVA_HOME"`
[ -n "$JRE_HOME" ] && JRE_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$JRE_HOME"`
[ -n "$CATALINA_HOME" ] && CATALINA_HOME=`cygpath --unix "$CATALINA_HOME"`
[ -n "$CATALINA_BASE" ] && CATALINA_BASE=`cygpath --unix "$CATALINA_BASE"`
[ -n "$CLASSPATH" ] && CLASSPATH=`cygpath --path --unix "$CLASSPATH"`
fi

# For OS400
if $os400; then
# Set job priority to standard for interactive (interactive - 6) by using
# the interactive priority - 6, the helper threads that respond to requests
# will be running at the same priority as interactive jobs.
COMMAND='chgjob job('$JOBNAME') runpty(6)'
system $COMMAND

# Enable multi threading
export QIBM_MULTI_THREADED=Y
fi

# Get standard Java environment variables
if $os400; then
# -r will Only work on the os400 if the files are:
# 1. owned by the user
# 2. owned by the PRIMARY group of the user
# this will not work if the user belongs in secondary groups
BASEDIR="$CATALINA_HOME"
. "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setclasspath.sh
else
if [ -r "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setclasspath.sh ]; then
BASEDIR="$CATALINA_HOME"
. "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/setclasspath.sh
else
echo "Cannot find $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setclasspath.sh"
echo "This file is needed to run this program"
exit 1
fi
fi

I don't know if the catalina_home is set.I can say that it way beyond my skills.Could you help me in getting the code to set catalina_home


Thanks

Have you read the TOMCAT user guide?
You should never want to move any cfg files or the catalina scripts into the init.d or rc?.d folders. EVER.

There are examples of startup scripts available, check the TOMCAT forums.

The tomcat startup CAN be added to the APACHE startup script if needed, but the following example of "HOW TO DO IT" is posted online at http://raibledesigns.com/tomcat/boot-howto.html
You should be able to modify this for your paths, drop it into /etc/rc.d/init.d, make it executable, and link to it form your rc?.d ( rc5.d if your default init level is 5 ) to make it execute on boot.

Note that it sets the CATALINA_HOME and calls scripts form there IN PLACE. This is what earlier advice referenced.
I hope this makes things clear.

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Thanks a lot.Will give a try and let you know the result

And will it be the same for cfg file

I had that in the rc.local as /path/to/dir/Bin/rmserver rmserver.cfg

and in inittab as rmsr:3:respawn:Bin/rmserver rmserver.cfg

However,it doesn't start on boot

Any suggestions on how to make it run on boot

I'd that on rc.local as /path/to/dir/Bin/rmserver rmserver.cfg and in inittab as rmsr:5:respawn:Bin/rmserver rmserver.cfg.

Here is the thing I found in the documentation.

To start the Server
1. Start any command shell.
2. Navigate to the main Server or Proxy installation directory.
3. Choose one of the following options:
a. Start the server or proxy as a background process. Use the following command for Server: Bin/rmserver rmserver.cfg &
......

You should not assume a current location for the startup scripts. You CANNOT assume a location for the support files for non-system scripts.
Your startup for rmserver might look like this
/path/to/dir/Bin/rmserver /path/to/dir/etc/rmserver.cfg

That is why so many system config files are directly or one level under /etc. It makes it short and easy to specify, and is convenient to hard-code as a default.

I believe that it is not starting because it is not finding your cfg file. (Though you should also check the binary and make sure execute permission is set.)

I used to same script for running tomcat instance.It worked for the first time.But, after making some changes like access permissions to the tomcat directory and removing the option "/bin/su user" in the file it doesn't start on boot.

I tried adding chkconfig: 35 71 29 and chkconfig --add servicename and then deleted and recreated the same file as the link says but still couldn't manage to get that working. When I manually run the script using ./filename start,it works well.However,I want it to start itself on boot.

Any suggestions

rmserver starts on boot,however, problem still exists with tomcat script...

Think: If it was working, you made changes, it broke ... first step is undo those changes.