Tomcat startup script - should work :)

tomcat.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Tomcat - stops and starts Tomcat 
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: tomcat
# Required-Start: $network $syslog
# Required-Stop: $network $syslog
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: start and stop Tomcat
### END INIT INFO

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java
export JAVA_OPTS=""
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

export TOMCAT_HOME=/opt/tomcat

tomcat_pid() {
  echo `ps u | grep $TOMCAT_HOME | grep "startup.Bootstrap" | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`
}

start() {
  PID=$(tomcat_pid)
  if [ -n "$PID" ]
  then
    echo "Tomcat is already running: $PID"
  else
    $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh start
  fi
  return 0
}

stop() {
  PID=$(tomcat_pid)
  if [ -n "$PID" ]
  then
    $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/catalina.sh stop
  else
    echo "Tomcat is not running. Nothing to kill"
  fi
  return 0
  return 0
}

case $1 in
start)
  start
;; 
stop)   
  stop
;; 
restart)
  stop
  start
;;
status)
  PID=$(tomcat_pid)
  if [ -n "$PID" ]
  then
    echo "Tomcat is running: $PID"
  else
    echo "Tomcat is not running"
  fi
;; 
esac    
exit 0