How to start tomcat service at boot time?

[ngong]

Every time I restart Manjaro, I have to sudo systemctl enable tomcat and sudo systemctl start tomcat.

How can I automate this at start time?

I looked around, but mostly I did not understand, what they are talking about.

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @ngong,

@ngong

sudo systemctl enable tomcat

Should do it. It might be that the service has an unmet dependency. Check why it didn’t start with:

journalctl --priority=4 --boot=-1 --unit=tomcat

Where:

• --priority=4 will show only the warnings and errors;
• --boot=-1 will limit the output to be for the previous boot. Feel free to adjust this as necessary: -1 for the previous boot, -2 for the one before that, and so on and so forth;
• --unit=tomcat is the service unit’s errors you want.

Let’s see what happens there.

[TriMoon]

Please post output of:

systemctl cat tomcat
systemctl status --all --lines=100 --no-pager tomcat 

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[xabbu]

@ngong

I have to sudo systemctl enable tomcat and sudo systemctl start tomcat.

Just out of curiosity, which Tomcat package did you installed?

Because non of the Tomcat packages in the repository provide a tomcat.service file. They all include the version, for example tomcat8.service or tomcat9.service . Or did you created your own systemd service file for Tomcat?