Linux lets Tomcat5 start service scripts automatically

In RH Linux systems, it is not possible to automatically start a $catalina_home/bin/startup.sh if it is simply placed in the/etc/rc.local. There's some work to do here. Assuming that you have installed JSVC (how to install JSVC, check the Tomcat random document), just write the Tomcat startup script as follows:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup Script for TOMCAT5
#
# chkconfig:345 88 14
# Description:tomcat Daemon
# PROCESSNAME:JSVC
# Pidfile:/var/run/jsvc.pid
# config:
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
#
# ADAPT The following lines to your configuration
Java_home=/usr/local/jdk
Catalina_home=/usr/local/tomcat
Daemon_home= $CATALINA _home/bin
Tomcat_user=tomcat5
# for multi instances adapt those lines.
Tmp_dir=/usr/local/tomcat/temp
Pid_file=/usr/local/tomcat/logs/jsvc.pid
Catalina_base=/usr/local/tomcat
catalina_opts=
Classpath=
$JAVA _home/lib/tools.jar:
$CATALINA _home/bin/commons-daemon.jar:
$CATALINA _home/bin/bootstrap.jar
Case "$" in
Start
#
# Start Tomcat
#
$DAEMON _home/jsvc
-user $TOMCAT _user
-home $JAVA _home
-dcatalina.home= $CATALINA _home
-dcatalina.base= $CATALINA _base
-djava.io.tmpdir= $TMP _dir
-wait 10
-pidfile $PID _file
-outfile $CATALINA _home/logs/catalina.out
-errfile ' &1 '
$CATALINA _opts
-CP $CLASSPATH
Org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
#
# to get a verbose JVM
#-verbose
# to get a debug of jsvc.
#-debug
Exit $?
;;
Stop
#
# Stop Tomcat
#
$DAEMON _home/jsvc
-stop
-pidfile $PID _file
Org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
Exit $?
;;
*)
echo "Usage tomcat.sh start/stop"
Exit 1;;
Esac

Put this script in the/etc/init.d/directory, plus executable permissions, you can use Chkconfig to configure!