tomcat startup script permission on mac os x

Question

hello people i'm struggling with a mac os x 10.5.8 that i've started using recently for development.i successfully installed tomcat and create launchd.conf for my environment variables.i believe it works fine.coz i can build a project with netbeans using maven and cargo plugins succesfully so i found online a script for start and stop the tomcat

#!/bin/bash

case $1 in
 start)
  sh /Library/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/startup.sh
 ;; 
 stop)
  sh /Library/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/shutdown.sh
 ;;
 restart)
  sh /Library/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/shutdown.sh
  sh /Library/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin/startup.sh
 ;;
 *)
 echo "Usage :start|stop|restart"
 ;;
 esac
 exit 0

that script was created in nano in sudo sh but when i want to run it. is spit out this

sh: /usr/bin/tomcat: Permission denied

i've added chmod 755 *.sh and *.bat inside /Library/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin

still access denied so what do i go around that?i have the admin privileges on the machine thanks for reading

Answer 1

Where did you install the tomcat script to? I'd recommend you install it to /usr/bin. Once installed, make sure the permissions are correct (i.e. chmod 755 /usr/bin/tomcat). You can then confirm with ls -l /usr/bin/tomcat.

If you still get errors once the permissions on /usr/bin/tomcat are correct, then you can add the following two lines following the #!/bin/bash line.

set -x
set -v

With the above lines, bash will output additional information that will allow you to tell what's being executed and where the error is happening.