[FIXED] Tomcat is not getting started: Permission denied

Issue

I am getting below error when trying to start the tomcat using systemd service

systemd[1]: tomcat.service: Failed to execute command: Permission denied
systemd[1]: tomcat.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh: Permission denied

Below is my tomcat.service configuration

[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking

Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat
Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'
Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'

ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID

User=tomcat
Group=tomcat

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

These are my permission on files in the bin directory

drwxrwx---. 2 tomcat tomcat   4096 Mar 22 05:56 .
drwx------. 9 tomcat tomcat    276 Mar 22 05:58 ..
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat  35071 Mar 11 09:33 bootstrap.jar
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat  15953 Mar 11 09:33 catalina.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat  23792 Mar 11 09:33 catalina.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   1664 Mar 11 09:36 catalina-tasks.xml
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   2123 Mar 11 09:33 ciphers.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   1997 Mar 11 09:33 ciphers.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat  25197 Mar 11 09:33 commons-daemon.jar
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat 206895 Mar 11 09:33 commons-daemon-native.tar.gz
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   2040 Mar 11 09:33 configtest.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   1922 Mar 11 09:33 configtest.sh
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   8675 Mar 11 09:33 daemon.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   2091 Mar 11 09:33 digest.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   1965 Mar 11 09:33 digest.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   3606 Mar 11 09:33 makebase.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   3382 Mar 11 09:33 makebase.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   3460 Mar 11 09:33 setclasspath.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   3708 Mar 11 09:33 setclasspath.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   2020 Mar 11 09:33 shutdown.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   1902 Mar 11 09:33 shutdown.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   2022 Mar 11 09:33 startup.bat
-rwxr-x--x. 1 tomcat tomcat   1904 Mar 11 09:33 startup.sh
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat  49372 Mar 11 09:33 tomcat-juli.jar
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat 419428 Mar 11 09:33 tomcat-native.tar.gz
-rw-r-----. 1 tomcat tomcat   4574 Mar 11 09:33 tool-wrapper.bat

NOTE: I am able to start the tomcat using sudo ./startup.sh command by navigating to bin directory

Solution

Can you check your /opt and /opt/bin permissions

Looks like

chmod a+rx /opt /opt/tomcat/ /opt/tomcat/bin

should help

Answered By - Ôrel