Tomcatを起動するとき毎回startup.shを叩かないでスクリプトから起動できるなら良いと思って実装してみました。

• tomcat配置ディレクトリは/usr/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.27　とします。

#!/bin/bash
#
# tomcat     This shell script takes care of starting and stopping Tomcat
#
# chkconfig: - 80 20
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: tomcat
# Required-Start: $network $syslog
# Required-Stop: $network $syslog
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: start and stop tomcat
### END INIT INFO

TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
TOMCAT_HOME="/usr/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.27"
SHUTDOWN_WAIT=45

tomcat_pid() {
    echo `ps aux | grep org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`
}

start() {
    pid=$(tomcat_pid)
    if [ -n "$pid" ]
    then
        echo "Tomcat is already running (pid: $pid)"
    else
        # Start tomcat
        echo "Starting tomcat"
        /bin/su - -c "cd $TOMCAT_HOME/bin && $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh" $TOMCAT_USER
    fi
    return 0
}

stop() {
    pid=$(tomcat_pid)
    if [ -n "$pid" ]
    then
        echo "Stopping Tomcat"
        /bin/su - -c "cd $TOMCAT_HOME/bin && $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh" $TOMCAT_USER

    let kwait=$SHUTDOWN_WAIT
    count=0
    count_by=5
    until [ `ps -p $pid | grep -c $pid` = '0' ] || [ $count -gt $kwait ]
    do
        echo "Waiting for processes to exit. Timeout before we kill the pid: ${count}/${kwait}"
        sleep $count_by
        let count=$count+$count_by;
    done

    if [ $count -gt $kwait ]; then
        echo "Killing processes which didn't stop after $SHUTDOWN_WAIT seconds"
        kill -9 $pid
    fi
    else
        echo "Tomcat is not running"
    fi

    return 0
}

case $1 in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    status)
       pid=$(tomcat_pid)
        if [ -n "$pid" ]
        then
           echo "Tomcat is running with pid: $pid"
        else
           echo "Tomcat is not running"
        fi
        ;;
esac

exit 0

ユーザ・オーナー・パーミッション

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/tomcat