Comments on Space Program Blog: Starting Tomcat as a Service on Linux

slappy's function doesn't perform well and in any ...

2007-09-22T15:41:00.000-07:00

slappy's function doesn't perform well and in any case it shows Tomcat as running. It needs to be modified as below

if [ $numproc -ne 0 ]; then

tomcat5 sets default service in /etc/rc.d/init.d d...

2007-03-11T13:11:00.000-07:00

tomcat5 sets default service in /etc/rc.d/init.d directory, however it does not start automatically. running the chkconfig line starts the service automatically.

Thanks for your help!
Kris

To change it so tomcat runs as another user, chang...

2007-03-07T16:38:00.000-08:00

To change it so tomcat runs as another user, change the $startup line to:

su - $user -c "$startup"

and $shutdown line to:

action $"Stopping Tomcat service: " su - $user "$shutdown"

And of course, define user up at the top where the paths are defined. Voila.

Hello,The problem with this is that Tomcat is then...

2007-02-15T04:07:00.000-08:00

Hello,
The problem with this is that Tomcat is then running as root, isn't it?
How shall we make it run as another user?
Thanks,
Timok

This seems to work a bit better for me I have foun...

2005-06-03T12:59:00.000-07:00

This seems to work a bit better for me I have found (running on RHEL3 WS):
ps ax --width=1000 | grep "[o]rg.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start" | awk '{printf $1 " "}' | wc | awk '{print $2}' > /tmp/tomcat_process_count.txt
read line < /tmp/tomcat_process_count.txt
if [ $line -gt 0 ]; then
echo -n "tomcatd ( pid "
ps ax --width=1000 | grep "[o]rg.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start" | awk '{printf $1 " "}'
echo -n ") is running..."
echo
else
echo "Tomcat is stopped"
fi

Here's one way to get a status.. add this function...

2005-03-17T14:32:00.000-08:00

Here's one way to get a status.. add this function:

status(){
numproc=`ps -ef | grep catalina | grep -v "grep catalina" | wc -l`
if [ $numproc -gt 0 ]; then
echo "Tomcat is running..."
else
echo "Tomcat is stopped..."
fi
}

Then call that in your case statement when "status" is used. Hope that helps!