Do you have any logfile output? First check whether the environment (JAVA_HOME for example) is set before calling /usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh. For example <<<< snip #!/bin/bash export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.5.0_05_x86_64 bin/startup.sh >>>> snip -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Mark Quitoriano Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juli 2006 10:22 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: [CentOS] executable on /etc/rc.local doesn't start Hi i installed apache tomcat on my server and put the startup on /etc/rc.local file so it will boot up everytime i restarted my server. But it never booted up i still need to run it manually what am i missing? here's my rc.local #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. ntpdate -u 18.145.0.30 /usr/local/sbin/apache-tomcat-start touch /var/lock/subsys/local my ntpddate seems to start. how do i verify if the program is executed or not? anyway the apache-tomcat-start is link to the startup.sh of apache tomcat and it's on my /usr/loca/sbin. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jul 7 18:16 apache-tomcat-start -> /usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060717/ced56d52/attachment-0005.bin>