Greetings,
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:
Good old sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat start will definitely work, for one time.
to start the service at boot time\,
sudo update-rc.d tomcat defaults
more info here
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-manage-services-with-update-rc.d
and if you prefer the upstart way then see
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/getting-started.html