Tenta isso aqui:

1.Crie um arquivo /etc/init.d/tomcatd com o conteúdo:

#!/bin/bash

Startup script for Jakarta Tomcat

chkconfig: 345 84 16

description: Jakarta Tomcat Java Servlet/JSP Container

TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat/tomcat-4.1.18
TOMCAT_START=/usr/local/tomcat/tomcat-4.1.18/bin/startup.sh
TOMCAT_STOP=/usr/local/tomcat/tomcat-4.1.18/bin/shutdown.sh

#Necessary environment variables
export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat/tomcat-4.1.18
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1_07
export LD_KERNEL_ASSUME=“2.2.5”

Source function library.

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

Source networking configuration.

. /etc/sysconfig/network

Check that networking is up.

[ ${NETWORKING} = “no” ] && exit 0

#Check for tomcat script
if [ ! -f $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh ]
then
echo “Tomcat not available…”
exit
fi

start() {
echo -n "Starting Tomcat: "
daemon $TOMCAT_START
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcatd

We may need to sleep here so it will be up for apache

sleep 5

#Instead should check to see if apache is up by looking for http.pid
}

stop() {

echo -n $"Shutting down Tomcat: "

daemon $TOMCAT_STOP

rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcatd.pid

echo

}

status() {

ps ax --width=1000 | grep “[o]rg.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

start” | awk ‘{printf $1 " "}’ | wc | awk ‘{print $2}’ >

/tmp/tomcat_process_count.txt

read line < /tmp/tomcat_process_count.txt

if [ $line -gt 0 ]; then

echo -n "tomcatd ( pid "

ps ax --width=1000 | grep “[o]rg.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

start” | awk ‘{printf $1 " "}’

echo -n “) is running…”

else

echo -n “Tomcat is stopped”

fi

}

case “$1” in

start)

start

;;

stop)

stop

;;

restart)

stop

sleep 3

start

;;

status)

status

;;

*)

echo “Usage: tomcatd {start|stop|restart|status}”

exit 1

esac

2.Coloque o arquivo na lista de serviços:

chkconfig --add tomcatd

3. Coloque no ar

/sbin/service tomcat start

4. Digite ntsync para configurar o startup automático do serviço