Problems with autostratup tomcat

Question

I have to start tomcat automatically at the boot of my machine(Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS).

so i done search on internet and i discovered that i have to put the command that start my tomcat in /etc/rc.local

so this is my file:

touch /var/testing1234

sh /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/bin/startup.sh

touch /var/testing123465

exit 0

when i reboot the file testing 1234 is created but the file testing123465 is not created, what can be the problem?,please gel me, I'm going mad with this thing.

Answer 1

Do you really need the .47 version? There's 7.0.26 as an dpkg, simply do an apt-get install tomcat7...

Add a & at the end of the sh line.