To find the tomcat PID, run:
ps -ef | grep tomcat
what to use:
kill -9 PID
Or in one command:
kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep tomcat | grep -v "grep" | awk '{print $2}')
Another thing is that you can have a watchdog timer running, which continues to operate tomcat - in this case, you also want to disable (or kill) the watchdog timer.
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