Mariano García wrote:
I want to ask you if there is any way to get tomcat does not start automatically when linux starts.
Yes, you can set TOMCAT4_USER to an empty string in /etc/default/tomcat4. However, you won't be able to manually run /etc/init.d/tomcat4 in this case either.
There has been some discussion on debian-policy about preventin automatic startup of services on boot but there has be no consensus. Some package maintainers decided to implement their own solution like start_on_boot=no in /etc/default/<package> but I don't want to do this.
Stefan