# service tomcat status
Tomcat service (pid 3236) is running...
# service tomcat stop
Stopping tomcat service... [ OK ]
# service tomcat status
Tomcat service is stopped
# service tomcat start
Starting tomcat service... [ OK ]
# service tomcat status
Tomcat service (pid 3319) is running...
A more verbose way:
# /opt/apache-tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/apache-tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/apache-tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/apache-tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/apache-tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
# /opt/apache-tomcat/bin/startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/apache-tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/apache-tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/apache-tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/apache-tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Tomcat started.