Tomcat5 trouble on Fedora Core 6, how do I start tomcat 5?

[rtailby]

Dunno if you're still using your workaround now as this post seems to have been inactive for a while, but.....

I ran into this problem again recently after not using Tomcat for ages. I noticed from your first post that you are trying to run the "tomcat5 start" command from inside the init.d directory. If you back out to the root dir and run the command with the full path from there, it should work.

i.e. I get this when I run tomcat5 from inside /etc/rc.d/init.d

[root@build01 init.d]# tomcat5 start
Found JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/java
Please complete your /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf so we won't have to look for it next time
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/temp
Using JRE_HOME:
touch: cannot touch `/usr/logs/catalina.out': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 325: /usr/logs/catalina.out: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 334: /var/run/tomcat5.pid: No such file or directory
[root@build01 init.d]# cd /
[root@build01 /]# etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat5 start
Starting tomcat5: [ OK ]
[root@build01 /]#

But, as above, changing to '/' and trying with the full path works fine (for me at least!). Worth a try I guess....

[carlsand]

There are several problems I found with this pair of scripts (centos5 via YUM):

1. the variables set in /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf need to be prepended with 'export ' to have any effect when tomcat5 runs dtomcat5 via su.

2. the su command should not be a login shell:
su $TOMCAT_USER -c "$TOMCAT_SCRIPT $@"

Now tomcat5 commands will work (don't call dtomcat5 directly!) and obey any current CATALINA_HOME settings.

-carl

[Evil_Bert]

Hello and welcome to the forum. This is a very old thread and the Fedora versions it referred to are long since past End of Life.

If you have further comments on EOL versions, please use the EOL section, or else try the CentOS forum for CentOS specific issues.

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