On 2013-09-13 13:08, Laurent Troxler wrote:
I noticed what could be an interesting point. In the /Library/Tomcat/bin/catalina.sh file is setted the following line as recommended: CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx1G -Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false -Dcom.sun.media.jai.disableMediaLib=true -Djava.awt.headless=true"but when I type ps -e | grep Tomcat, it gives the following: 14952 ttys000 5:31.03 /Library/Java/Home/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/Library/Tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Xms512m -Xmx1G -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Xms512m -Xmx1G -Dorg.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.STRICT_QUOTE_ESCAPING=false -Dcom.sun.media.jai.disableMediaLib=true -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/Library/Tomcat/endorsed -classpath /Library/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/Library/Tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/Library/Tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/Library/Tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 16845 ttys000 0:00.00 grep Tomcat Thus the -Djava.awt.headless=true setting does not appear here. Would it mean that the setting comes from somewhere else then the /Library/Tomcat/bin/catalina.sh file ?
It is important that the headless option is set. One test is to print the variable at different points in the catalina.sh script to examine where it changes.
If I do a modification on the /Library/Tomcat/bin/catalina.sh file, at what stage should I rester the installation procedure ? Just restart Tomcat (/Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh and then /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh) ? The other thing I noticed, confirming that the Djava.awt.headless option is not taken in account is that I get a windowed application named org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap that remains as mentioned by Jari.
I think this is the krux of your issue. When this is resolved you should be good to go. Assuming that you did all steps in the BASE installation already there is no restart once you resolved the tomcat issues. Just log in to BASE and get started ;-)
The Apache/tomcat connector mentioned in the installation documents is not critical and is really useful for servers with heavy load.
What surprises me is that when I type the command : /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh I get the following output: Using CATALINA_BASE: /Library/Tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /Library/Tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Library/Tomcat/temp Using JRE_HOME: /Library/Java/Home Using CLASSPATH: /Library/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar Using CATALINA_PID: /Library/Tomcat/catalina_pid.txt PID file found but no matching process was found. Stop aborted. And the Java process is still running…
Your observations above are exactly what I have seen on my system. There are two environment variables affecting the behaviour of the startup and shutdown of tomcat. I have attached my tomcat startup script to this mail. Since I am only testing BASE on my machine I created script to start and stop tomcat manually. The script is run like tomcat.sh action where action is start, stop, status, restart. Examine the environment variables in the script. I have three variables; JAVA_OPTS, CATALINA_OPTS, and CATALINA_PID. The two OPTS can probably be merged into JAVA_OPTS only but I haven't bothered to do that. The important thing is that the shutdown script provided by tomcat/macports does not use CATALINA_OPTS at all but uses JAVA_OPTS. Therefore I place the headless option in JAVA_OPTS. The startup script provided by tomcat/macports uses both JAVA_OPTS and CATALINA_OPTS. The use of PID within the different scripts provided by tomcat/macports on my system is not consistent. I notes that script tomcatctl provided by tomcat/macports expects to be the PID-file i defined in variable CATALINA_PID. That is why I set the CATALINA_PID and pass it on to the startup and shutdown scripts. The different scripts will now rely on the same PID-file and work consistently. I created my script since I want to avoid changing system scripts since the system script may be replaced during upgrades. Of course, my script may fail later on but I have one script to fix in that case. Use the ideas from my script and you should soon be accessing your BASE server.
Other informations: Both /Library/Tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/base2 and /Library/Tomcat/work/Catalina/localhost/_/ directories are empty
Once you stop the tomcat server it is safe to remove the files and directories from /Library/Tomcat/work/Catalina and down, i.e.,
rm -f /Library/Tomcat/work/Catalinaand then restart. This forces tomcat to recompile the webapps. Startup takes some additional time but you get a fresh compile. Once everything works there is no need to clean up the work directory.
I have set the owner of /Library/Tomcat/work directory and inner files to _appserver user and _appserveradm group as defined for the tomcat process. The other odd thing I am just discovering is that when typing the command line 'ps auxw | grep tomcat' I only get one time out of three the shell process /Library/Tomcat/bin/tomcat-launchd.sh And each time it has an other pid. Is it supposed to be so ? That would explain why when I want to shutdown the Tomcat process it is aborted.
I don't know why you have this and have not seen this behaviour. Maybe it is related to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5270047?start=0&tstart=0 or hopefully it goes away once the above issue is resolved :-)
Cheers, Jari
tomcat.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to basedb-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
