The following should work on centos/redhat, don't forget to edit the paths, user, and java options for your environment. You can use chkconfig to add it to your startup.
Note, this script assumes that the Solr webapp is configured using JNDI in a tomcat context fragment. If not you will need to add something like -Dsolr.solr.home=/solr/home to the JAVA_OPTS line. Colin. #!/bin/sh # chkconfig: 345 99 1 # description: Tomcat6 service # processname: java . /etc/init.d/functions my_log_message() { ACTION=$1 shift case "$ACTION" in success) echo -n $* success "$*" echo ;; failure) echo -n $* failure "$*" echo ;; warning) echo -n $* warning "$*" echo ;; *) ;; esac } log_success_msg() { my_log_message success "$*" } log_failure_msg() { my_log_message failure "$*" } log_warning_msg() { my_log_message warning "$*" } export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default export TOMCAT_USER=solr export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/solr/production/tomcat6 export CATALINA_PID=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat6.pid JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xms6G -Xmx6G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC" export JAVA_OPTS [ -d "$CATALINA_HOME" ] || { echo "Tomcat requires $CATALINA_HOME."; exit 1; } case $1 in start|stop|run) if su $TOMCAT_USER bash -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh $1"; then log_success_msg "Tomcat $1 successful" [ $1 == "stop" ] && rm -f $CATALINA_PID else log_failure_msg "Error in Tomcat $1: $?" fi ;; restart) $0 start $0 stop ;; status) if [ -f "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then read kpid < "$CATALINA_PID" if ps --pid $kpid 2>&1 1>/dev/null; then echo "$0 is already running at ${kpid}" else echo "$CATALINA_PID found, but $kpid is not running" fi unset kpid else echo "$0 is stopped" fi ;; esac exit 0 > -----Original Message----- > From: Sixten Otto [mailto:six...@sfko.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 3:49 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Tomcat startup script > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM, K Wong <wongo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay. I've been running multicore Solr 1.4 on Tomcat 5.5/OpenJDK 6 > > straight out of the centos repo and I've not had any issues. We're > not > > doing anything wild and crazy with it though. > > It's nice to know that the wiki's advice might be out of date. That > doesn't really help me with my immediate problem (lacking the script > the wiki is trying to provide), though, unless I want to rip out what > I've got and start over. :-/ > > Sixten