Facing some issues regarding tomcat startup and shutdown on ubuntu 10.04

Question

I am facing some issues regarding tomcat startup and shutdown.

I am using

1. Tomcat v.6.0.32 (using the extracted the bundle downloaded from Apache website a

Answer 1

Solution; First set the pid of tomcat CATALINA_PID="/id.pid" export CATALINA_PID

then kill it catalina.sh stop -force

source: http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=216959212

otherwise just as you mentioned, just kill it with the kill command

ps aux | grep catalina
kill 

if the above two solutions don't fit your needs try the following:

$ sudo service tomcat6 stop
* Stopping Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ]
$ sudo service tomcat6 start
* Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ]
$

or of course the more traditional way:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 stop
* Stopping Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ]
$ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start
* Starting Tomcat ser