How to Add Tomcat as a Linux Service and Enable Startup on Boot

cd /etc/init.d
vi /etc/init.d/tomcat

#!/bin/sh

#chkconfig: 2345 10 90

# description: Starts and Stops the Tomcat daemon.

##############################################

#Startup script for Tomcat on Linux

 

#filename tomcat.sh

 

#Make sure the java and the tomcat installation path has been added to the PATH

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_77 

CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat   

export JAVA_HOME

export CATALINA_HOME

 

###############################################

start_tomcat=/usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh             

stop_tomcat=/usr/local/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh               

start() {                                                              

        echo -n "Starting tomcat: "

        ${start_tomcat}

        echo "tomcat start ok."

}

stop() {

        echo -n "Shutting down tomcat: "

        ${stop_tomcat}

        echo "tomcat stop ok."

}

# See how we were called

                                                   

case "$1" in

  start)

        start

        ;;

  stop)

        stop

        ;;

  restart)

        stop

        sleep 10

        start

        ;;

  *)

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

esac

exit 0

chmod 755 tomcat

chkconfig –add tomcat

chkconfig –level 345 tomcat on