I revised my startup script for Tomcat to use a non-privileged user for security reasons. I used the following page as my resource: http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/c140.html #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/tomcat6: start Tomcat6 server. test -f /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/startup.sh || exit 0 PATH=$PATH:/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/ case “$1” in start) export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.6.0_26/ logger -t Tomcat6 “Starting Tomcat 6…” exec su – tomcat -c /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/startup.sh | logger -t Tomcat6 ;; stop) export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jre1.6.0_26/ logger -t … Continue reading Debian Configuration– Tomcat on Boot, revision