Hi, We can start Tomcat as a service or as a daemon in Linux by some tricks…. [root@map007]# ln -s /usr/local/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat And then based on the runlevel, you can create the Sxx and Kxx links in the appropriate directory.. ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S63tomcat ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K37tomcat (change S63 and K37 according to your [...]