How do I kill this tomcat process in Terminal?

Question

Using ps -ef | grep tomcat I found a tomcat server that is running. I tried kill -9 {id} but it returns \"No such process.\" What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In tomcat/bin/catalina.sh

add the following line after just after the comment section ends:

CATALINA_PID=someFile.txt

then, to kill a running instance of Tomcat, you can use:

kill -9 `cat someFile.txt`