RH linux系統中，如果簡單的將$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh放在/etc/rc.local中，並不能使之自動啟動。這裡有些工作要做。假設已經安裝好了jsvc（如何安裝jsvc，請查看tomcat隨機文檔），在此，只寫出tomcat的啟動腳本如下：
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup Script for Tomcat5
#
# chkconfig: 345 88 14
# description: Tomcat Daemon
# processname: jsvc
# pidfile: /var/run/jsvc.pid
# config:
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
#
# Adapt the following lines to your configuration
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
DAEMON_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME/bin
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat5
# for multi instances adapt those lines.
TMP_DIR=/usr/local/tomcat/temp
PID_FILE=/usr/local/tomcat/logs/jsvc.pid
CATALINA_BASE=/usr/local/tomcat
CATALINA_OPTS=
CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
case "$1" in
start)
#
# Start Tomcat
#
$DAEMON_HOME/jsvc \
-user $TOMCAT_USER \
-home $JAVA_HOME \
-Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
-Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_BASE \
-Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
-wait 10 \
-pidfile $PID_FILE \
-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 \
exit $?
;;
stop)
#
# Stop Tomcat
#
$DAEMON_HOME/jsvc \
-stop \
-pidfile $PID_FILE \
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
exit $?
;;
*)
echo "Usage tomcat.sh start/stop"
exit 1;;
esac