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Tomcat Service for ThingWorx does not start automatically on reboot of Ubuntu 18.04

Modified: 16-Jul-2021   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.3 to 9.5

Description

  • Tomcat Service for ThingWorx does not start automatically on reboot of Ubuntu 18.04
  • Tomcat Service has to be manually started after each reboot of Ubuntu
  • Instructions to enable Tomcat service in ThingWorx installation guide(refer pages 43 and 55) to start on reboot does not work on Ubuntu 18.04
  • Attempting to enable the service using the command:

    sudo systemctl enable tomcat8.5.service

    results in the below error:

    update-rc.d: error: tomcat8.5 Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting.
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