how to run tomcat as service and not use root user

Question

I copy catalina.sh to /etc/init.d/tomcat and sudo chkconfig --add tomcat it started as root user,I want use another user,how?

Answer 1

If you do want to create your own start up script for whatever reason. Then to run tomcat under another user use su -c "$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat.sh start" nobody when starting tomcat. (nobody is the user in this case that tomcat will start under)

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Answer 2

You should not copy catalina.sh to /etc/init.d/tomcat. Ubuntu provides (in its tomcat6 package) a /etc/init.d/tomcat6 startup script that will invoke catalina.sh as the correct user.

Also, using chkconfig on Ubuntu is not supported; it's a script for Red Hat-based systems. Don't use it.