You can disable Tomcat permanently if you no longer want to use Tomcat. You can turn off the Java virtual machines that handles the requests and prevent Tomcat from launching in the future.
To disable Tomcat:
su -
. The system prompts you for a password.You now have root privileges, which means that you can change anything on the server.
/sbin/chkconfig --del tomcat4
/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat4 stop