How to restart tomcat 6 in ubuntu

Question

How can one restart and start Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu from the command line with a default installation?

Accepted Answer

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
```

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