My Confluence restart script - crated since Tomcat is not to good to close nicely and clean up resources.
Secondly, keeping an eye out for java stacktraces and that the server is airborne is to be prefered.
#!/bin/bash cd /tmp echo "**Shutting down*****" /opt/confluence/bin/shutdown.sh echo "**Sleeping 20 ...**" sleep 20 killall java if [ `ps -ef | grep java | grep confluence | wc -l` -gt 0 ] then echo "There are still java processes running...." exit 1 fi echo "**Starting**" /opt/confluence/bin/startup.sh tail -f /opt/confluence/logs/catalina.out