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[Chris Hyzer <>]

> and if you read this far - does anyone have an init.d script for 
> tomcat running
> under an arbitrary user I can use without assumptions of the normal 
> tomcat5 rpm being
> installed?
I have multiple tomcats running that share one base, so here are the two 
files you need, but you need to change where java is, catalina_base, 
memory usage, etc.  If you are running as a non root user, it will run 
as that user.  If you are running as root, it will sudo to the user it 
should run as (e.g. start up)

[mchyzer@flash
 scripts]$ more /etc/init.d/tomcat_mchyzer
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for the Tomcat Server
#
# chkconfig: - 86 14
# description: Tomcat
# processname:
# pidfile:
# config:
# Tomcat
# description: Starts and stops the Tomcat
# See how we were called.
# -XX:MaxPermSize=40m
export CATALINA_BASE="/home/mchyzer/tomcat"
export TOMCAT_NAME="mchyzer"
export TOMCAT_USER=$TOMCAT_NAME
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms160m -Xmx160m -XX:MaxPermSize=120m"
export CATALINA_HOME="/opt/tomcat5_5"
export TOMCAT_HOME="/opt/tomcat5_5"
export JAVA_HOME="/opt/java5"

/etc/init.d/tomcat5_0helper $1


[mchyzer@flash
 scripts]$ more /etc/init.d/tomcat5_0helper
#!/bin/sh
#
# Helper startup script for the Tomcat Server

export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS 
-Djava.library.path=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/i386/client:/opt/java/lib/i386"

echo

cd $CATALINA_BASE


case "$1" in
 start)
   echo -n "Starting $TOMCAT_NAME Tomcat services: "
   echo
   if [ "$UID" -ne "0" ]
   then
     $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   else
     sudo -u $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh
   fi
   echo
   ;;
 stop)
   echo -n "Shutting down $TOMCAT_NAME Tomcat services: "
   echo
   if [ "$UID" -ne "0" ]
   then
     $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   else
     sudo -u $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
   fi 
   echo
   ;;
 status)
   echo | ps ax | grep $CATALINA_BASE | grep $TOMCAT_USER
   ;;
 restart)
   echo -n "Restarting Tomcat $TOMCAT_NAME services: "
   $0 stop
   sleep 2
   $0 start
   echo "done."
   ;;
 *)
   echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
   exit 1
esac
[mchyzer@flash
 scripts]$