Tomcat has had a force option for years tomcat/bin/catalina.sh stop -force
Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:50 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Internal Servern Error 500 (Midtiern 7.604) Patrick, Unfortunately I don't. Call me old fashioned, but at JSS, we try to fix the bugs before the product goes out of the door and when bugs are reported, we get a patch out as soon as possible (usually within 24 hours) :-) You'd need to monitor stdout*.log on Windows, or catalina.out on Unix, for java.lang.NullPointerException. If I were writing something, I'd ask it to monitor a list of log files (recalling some will rotate, which would break the Unix tail -f command) and email me with errors. Something like this, running every X minutes: grep NullPointerException tomcat/logs/catalina.out 2> /dev/null && tomcat/bin/catalina.sh stop; sleep 20; tomcat/bi/catalina.sh start But Tomcat may not stop, as JVMs tend to get upset and not gracefully exit when they've been busy throwing exceptions. So the stop/start needs to be better and check for a java process ID, killing it if need be. Really not very nice :) John -- SSO Plugin for BMC products http://www.javasystemsolutions.com -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:27 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Internal Servern Error 500 (Midtiern 7.604) ** John, By any chance do you have a script that will check for those? and then auto shutdown apache and restart it up? for unix? _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
