useradd tomcat

/home/tomcat

ls -l /home/tomcat
drwxr-xr-x  3 tomcat tomcat  4096 Dec 13 02:51 bin
drwxr-xr-x  6 tomcat tomcat    56 Sep 23 09:42 common
drwxr-xr-x  3 tomcat tomcat  4096 Dec 13 05:18 conf
-rw-r--r--  1 tomcat tomcat 11357 Sep 23 09:44 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  2 tomcat tomcat    25 Dec 13 02:51 logs
-rw-r--r--  1 tomcat tomcat   688 Sep 23 09:44 NOTICE
-rw-r--r--  1 tomcat tomcat  6403 Sep 23 09:42 RELEASE-NOTES
-rw-r--r--  1 tomcat tomcat  7006 Sep 23 09:44 RUNNING.txt
drwxr-xr-x  5 tomcat tomcat    44 Sep 23 09:42 server
drwxr-xr-x  4 tomcat tomcat    30 Sep 23 09:42 shared
drwxr-xr-x  2 tomcat tomcat     6 Sep 23 09:42 temp
drwxr-xr-x  3 tomcat tomcat    35 Dec 13 05:17 webapps
drwxr-xr-x  3 tomcat tomcat    21 Dec 13 02:52 work

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for Tomcat, the Apache Servlet Engine
#
# chkconfig: 345 80 20
# description: Tomcat is the Apache Servlet Engine
# processname: tomcat
# pidfile: /var/run/tomcat.pid
#
# Mike Millson <*******@meritonlinesystems.com>
#
# version 1.02 - Clear work directory on shutdown per John Turner suggestion.
# version 1.01 - Cross between Red Hat Tomcat RPM and Chris Bush scripts

TOMCAT_PROG=tomcat
JAVA_HOME='/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06'
CATALINA_HOME='/home/tomcat/'
DAEMON_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc
TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
CATALINA_OPTS=
CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar

# if TOMCAT_USER is not set, use tomcat like Apache HTTP server
if [ -z "$TOMCAT_USER" ]; then
 TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"
fi

RETVAL=0

# start and stop functions
start() {
    echo -n "Starting tomcat: "
    chown -R $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_USER /home/tomcat/*
    $DAEMON_HOME \
    -user $TOMCAT_USER \
    -home $JAVA_HOME \
    -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
    -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
    -Djava.awt.headless=true \
    -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
    -errfile '&1' \
    $CATALINA_OPTS \
    -cp $CLASSPATH \
    org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
    # To get a verbose JVM
    #-verbose \
    # To get a debug of jsvc.
    #-debug \

    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat
    return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
    echo -n "Stopping tomcat: "
    PID=`cat /var/run/jsvc.pid`
    kill $PID
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
    [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tomcat.pid
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        stop
        # Ugly hack
        # We should really make sure tomcat
        # is stopped before leaving stop
        sleep 5
        start
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

service tomcat start

service tomcat stop