8 Comments

1. zainal13. February 2009 at 10:28

   This article not helpful. Some of the configuration is not working.

2. mates13. February 2009 at 23:54Author

   What exactly didn’t work for you? This will install basic Tomcat, nothing more.

3. steve1. March 2009 at 04:46

   I think maybe zainal had trouble copying the init.d script text. I used gedit to replace all of the open-close style double quotes with standard double quotes. Other than that everything worked fine. Thanks.

4. mniedero2. March 2009 at 14:23

   The quotation marks in script /etc/init.d/tomcat6 makes troubles. This is the solely problem I could find in your description.

5. mniedero2. March 2009 at 16:50

   There are further problems:
   o) quotation marks: Because of this copy/paste from your description above does not work
   o) There is neither catalina.pid nor tomcat.pid in /var/run folder
   to avoid this, you should add this line into your tomcat6 script:
   CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat.pid
   In addition, CATALINA_PID must be removed in stop and condrestart case
   o) I also had troubles with the case statements so I modified the whole script
   according /etc/init.d/postfix (I use postfix instead of sendmail…). This means
   that I wrote functions for start() and stop().
   Now it works as expected and also service configuration app shows the PID when
   tomcat6 is running.

6. mniedero2. March 2009 at 16:54

   This is my /etc/init.d/tomcat6 script:

   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # Startup script for jakarta tomcat
   #
   # chkconfig: – 85 20
   # description: Tomcat running
   # processname: tomcat
   # pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid

   # config:

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

   # Source networking configuration.
   . /etc/sysconfig/network

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

   # Set Tomcat environment.
   JAVA_HOME=/opt/sun/java/jdk1.6.0_12
   CATALINA_HOME=/srv/asf/tomcat6
   CATALINA_OPTS=”-Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true”
   CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat.pid
   CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/dt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/lib/servlet-api.jar

   [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh ] || exit 0
   [ -f $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh ] || exit 0

   PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$CATALINA_HOME/bin:$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/bin

   export PATH CLASSPATH JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME CATALINA_PID

   RETVAL=0
   progname=”tomcat”

   start() {
   # Start daemon.
   echo -n $”Starting Tomcat: ”
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   RETVAL=$?
   [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat
   echo
   return $RETVAL
   }

   stop() {
   # Stop daemons.
   echo -n $”Shutting down Tomcat: ”
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   RETVAL=$?
   [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcat && rm -f $CATALINA_PID
   echo
   return $RETVAL
   }

   restart() {
   # restart
   stop
   start
   }

   # See how we were called.
   case “$1″ in
   start)
   start
   ;;
   stop)
   stop
   ;;
   restart)
   restart
   ;;
   status)
   status tomcat
   ;;
   condrestart)
   [ -e /var/lock/subsys/tomcat ] && [ -e $CATALINA_PID ] && restart
   ;;
   *)
   echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|condrestart}”
   exit 1
   esac

   exit $?

7. mniedero2. March 2009 at 16:55

   BTW, the quotation marks now changed, so the script can not be copied using copy/paste!
   

8. sachin13. July 2009 at 11:18

   toooo gooood