Whats the difference between service tomcat start/stop and ./catalina.sh run/stop
catalina.sh run starts tomcat in the foreground, displaying the logs on the console that you started it. Hitting Ctrl-C will terminate tomcat. startup.sh will start tomcat in the background. You’ll have to tail -f logs/catalina.out to see the logs. Both will do the same things, apart from the foreground/background distinction. Actually, startup.sh is quite small. … Read more