[systemd-devel] Tomcat.service / PID aquiring

[Josh Geisser]

Hi there

We developt an own rc script a while ago for maintaining our tomcats. (mainly improved shutdown behaviour with eventual kill). 
The script takes start/Stopp/status as arguments, and identifies the right PID by a filtered 'ps'. It also keeps track of the tomcats pid in an own pid-file.

So far the ExecStart and ExecStop is clear, but is there something like ExecStatus? Or, is it possible that systemd reads the service-pid from a file generated by not himself?

Cheers
Josh

[Unit]
Description=Atlassian Confluence Tomcat
Wants=network.target mysql.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/confluence/rc.confluence start
ExecStop=/home/confluence/rc.confluence start
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target