cd /etc/systemd/system sudo vi tomcat.service then insert following lines -
[Unit] Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container After=network.target [Service] Type=forking Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.11.0-openjdk-amd64 Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC' Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom' ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh #User=tomcat #Group=tomcat UMask=0007 RestartSec=10 Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.targetsudo systemctl daemon-reload Start tomcat sudo systemctl start tomcat.service Stop tomcat sudo systemctl stop tomcat.service Restart tomcat sudo systemctl restart tomcat.service Enable service after restart automatic tomcat start sudo systemctl enable tomcat.service