Resources http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html and more importantly, the example in

$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc-src/native/Tomcat5.sh

1. Make tomcat startup apparatus

   cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
   tar xvfz jsvc.tar.gz
   cd jsvc-src/
   autoconf
   chmod +x configure
   ./configure
   make
   cp jsvc ..
   cd ..
   

2. Tomcat startup script – for an unknown reason, a simple startup script doesn't work for me. I find that Tomcat will startup fine using the script manually after the normal startup has completed. So, I modify the startup process... the normal startup script runs another script as a background process, and that background script sleeps a while and then starts Tomcat.

   vi /etc/init.d/tomcat
   
   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # Tomcat Control Script
   #
   # To use this script
   # run it as root - it will switch to the specified user
   # It loses all console output - use the log.
   #
   # ---------------------
   
   JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME:-"/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun"}
   JDK_HOME={$JDK_HOME:-"$JAVA_HOME"}
   PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
   JAVA_OPS=${JAVA_OPTS:-"-Xms512m -Xmx800m -server -Djava.awt.headless=true"}
   CATALINA_HOME=${CATALINA_HOME:-"/usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.15"}
   JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"/usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/bin"}
   CATALINA_CONSOLE=${CATALINA_CONSOLE:-"$CATALINA_HOME/logs/console"}
   CATALINA_USER=${CATALINA_USER:-"tomcat"}
   CLASSPATH=\
   $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
   
   if [ ! -d "$CATALINA_HOME" ]; then
     echo CATALINA_HOME does not exist as a valid directory : $CATALINA_HOME
     exit 1
   fi
   
   case "$1" in
   start)
       if [ -z "`ps -U tomcat|grep jsvc`" ]; then
           /home/root/scripts/tomcat.start.sh >/home/root/scripts/tomcat.start.log 2>&1 &
   #        echo -n $"Startup tomcat:"
   #        cd $CATALINA_HOME
   #        su - $CATALINA_USER -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc \
   #             -user $CATALINA_USER \
   #             -pidfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/jsvc.pid \
   #             -Djava.endorsed.dirs=$CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed \
   #             -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
   #             -Dbucket.indexing.threads.fixed=1 \
   #             -Xms512m -Xmx800m \
   #             -Djava.awt.headless=true \
   #             -cp $CLASSPATH \
   #             -wait 10 \
   #             -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
   #             -errfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.err \
   #             org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap >$CATALINA_CONSOLE 2>&1 &
   #        echo
       else
           echo -n "tomcat is ALREADY running"
           echo
       fi
       ;;
   stop)
       if [ -z "`ps -U tomcat|grep jsvc`" ]; then
           echo -n "tomcat is NOT running"
           echo
       else
           echo -n $"Shutdown tomcat :"
           cd $CATALINA_HOME
           su - $CATALINA_USER -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc \
                -pidfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/jsvc.pid \
                -stop \
                org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap >$CATALINA_CONSOLE 2>&1 &
           while [ ! -z "`ps -U tomcat|grep jsvc`" ]; do
                   sleep 1
                   echo -n .
           done
           echo
       fi
       ;;
   restart)
       $0 stop
       $0 start
       ;;
   status)
       if [ -z "`ps -U tomcat|grep jsvc`" ]; then
           echo "tomcat is NOT running"
       else
           echo "tomcat is running: pid=`ps -U tomcat|grep jsvc`"
       fi
       ;;
   *)
       echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|help)"
   esac
   

   vi /home/root/scripts/tomcat.start.sh
   
   #!/bin/sh
   #
   # Tomcat Startup/Delay Script
   #
   # To use this script
   # run it as root - it will switch to the specified user
   # It loses all console output - use the log.
   #
   # ---------------------
   
   sleep 60
   JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME:-"/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun"}
   JDK_HOME={$JDK_HOME:-"$JAVA_HOME"}
   PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
   CATALINA_HOME=${CATALINA_HOME:-"/usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.15"}
   JAVAPTH=${JAVAPTH:-"/usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/bin:$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib"}
   CATALINA_CONSOLE=${CATALINA_CONSOLE:-"$CATALINA_HOME/logs/console"}
   CATALINA_USER=${CATALINA_USER:-"tomcat"}
   CLASSPATH=\
   $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar:\
   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
   
   if [ ! -d "$CATALINA_HOME" ]; then
     echo CATALINA_HOME does not exist as a valid directory : $CATALINA_HOME
     exit 1
   fi
   
       if [ -z "`ps -U tomcat|grep jsvc`" ]; then
           echo -n $"Startup tomcat:"
           cd $CATALINA_HOME
           modprobe capability
           su - $CATALINA_USER -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc \
                -user $CATALINA_USER \
                -pidfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/jsvc.pid \
                -Djava.endorsed.dirs=$CATALINA_HOME/common/endorsed \
                -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
                -Dbucket.indexing.threads.fixed=1 \
                -Xms512m -Xmx800m \
                -Djava.awt.headless=true \
                -cp $CLASSPATH \
                -wait 10 \
                -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
                -errfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.err \
                org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap >$CATALINA_CONSOLE 2>&1 &"
           echo
       else
           echo -n "tomcat is ALREADY running"
           echo
       fi
   

3. Create symbolic links for system level startup

   ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc2.d/K01tomcat 
   ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc2.d/S99tomcat 
   ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc3.d/K01tomcat 
   ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc3.d/S99tomcat 
   ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc5.d/K01tomcat 
   ln -s /etc/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc5.d/S99tomcat