Tomcat startup script - Tomcat V6/7/8 - Linux

Tomcat startup script :-

Script based  Tomcat lifecycle management is good in Production and test environment,Befor starting  Tomcat server we have to export Tomcat variables in system level

most common varialbes are :-

1)CATALINA_BASE     - Tomcat installation location
2)CATALINA_HOME   - Tomcat instance location if you are running multible instance in same machine .
3)CATALINA_OPTS    - Server scope java options  eg time zone ,language support etc
4)CATALINA_OUT      - Catalina.out file location - jvm output will be store in this file
5)CATALINA_PID        - Tomcat server process id file
6)JAVA_HOME             - Java home
7)JAVA_OPTS              - Java options - JVM options , heapsize ,minimum & maximum memor size , tunning parameters

Sample  bash script which is used to start  owcs 11g  hosted tomcat instance .

startup.sh

#!/bin/sh

FW_UID=11112

if [[ $EUID -ne $FW_UID ]]; then
  echo "This script must be run as  tomcat user"  1>&2
  exit 1
else

CATALINA_OUT=/owcs/logs/dev/editorial/catalina.out
CATALINA_BASE=/owcs/dev/editorial/cs_tomcat
CATALINA_HOME=/owcs/apache-tomcat-6.0.37
CATALINA_PID=/owcs/pids/dev_editorial_pid
JAVA_HOME=/owcs/jdk1.6.0_45
CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/lib/ojdbc6.jar:$CATALINA_BASE/cs_tomcat/webapps/cs/WEB-INF/lib/MSXML.jar:/owcs/dev/owcs-editorial/bin:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -Xss512k -Xloggc:/owcs/logs/dev/editorial/verbosegc.$$ -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=650m -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Duser.timezone=Europe/London -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dcs.useJavaURLDecoder=false -Dcs.useEhcache=true -Dnet.sf.ehcache.enableShutdownHook=true -DenableErrorPropagation=true -Djava.library.path=/owcs/dev/owcs-editorial/bin -Djava.awt.headless=true"

export CATALINA_OUT CATALINA_BASE CATALINE_HOME CATALINA_PID JAVA_HOME JAVA_OPTS CLASSPATH

case $1 in
'start')
        exec "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/catalina.sh start "$@"
        ;;

'stop')
        exec "$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/catalina.sh stop -force "$@"
        ;;

*)
        echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}"
        rval=1
        ;;
esac
fi

Reference :-

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/index.html