On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:17 -0500, Andrew R Feller wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> Over the past couple of months, I have been working with some Tomcat
> instances on RHEL 5 and wondered: what is the recommended method to
> startup/shutdown Tomcat? After reading the Tomcat documentation, they
> talk about compiling the jsvc source under the bin directory and using
> that.

Hi Andrew,

Redhat package tomcat 5.5 as an RPM (or JPackage package it and Redhat
distribute it).

This RPM comes with well written init scripts, creates a tomcat user
etc. I would recommend you use this.

# yum install tomcat5

Cheers, Ben

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> Andrew R Feller, Analyst
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> Subversion Administrator
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> University Information Systems
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> Louisiana State University
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