How can one restart and start Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu from the command line with a default installation?
if you are using extracted tomcat then,
startup.sh
and shutdown.sh
are two script located in TOMCAT/bin/ to start and shutdown tomcat, You could use that
if tomcat is installed then
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart