title: Tomcat is not getting started: Permission denied
body: <p>I am getting below error  when trying to start the tomcat using <strong>systemd service</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Below is my tomcat.service configuration</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>[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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>These are my permission on files in the bin directory</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>NOTE: I am able to start the tomcat using sudo ./startup.sh command by navigating to bin directory</strong></p>