Chicken Donut

Turns out setting Tomcat (6 in this case) up as a service on Ubuntu (Debian) is drop dead simple.  It boils down to just a few commands:

sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/catalina.sh
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/catalina.sh /etc/init.d/tomcat
sudo update-rc.d tomcat defaults

For more information:

• An introduction to services, runlevels, and rc.d scripts
• Adding a startup script to be run at bootup
• How can I start Tomcat as a daemon in Linux?