in the page http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html in section "Unix daemon" the argument "-cp ./bin/bootstrap.jar" must be replaced with "-cp ./bin/bootstrap.jar:./bin/tomcat-juli.jar" Using only "-cp ./bin/bootstrap.jar" tomcat can't start due to a class not found exception "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/juli/logging/LogFactory"
under Mac OS X 10.6.5 64 bit also the parameter "-jvm server" is necessary
Thanks for the report. Fixed in 7.0.x and will be included in 7.0.5 onwards.