Shakir, Where did you get that command from?
Here's what you did: You truncated your "shutdown.sh" script. The ":" is the no-op command that is used when one wants to use side-effects (such as I/O redirection) without running a command. The ">" is similar to that of the DOS/CMD.exe/Command.com in Windows, it redirects output to the file whose name follows. So you ran the null command (which produces no output) and redirected it to the "shutdown.sh" script, thus truncating it. Had you used the append output redirection, ">>", all would be OK, since adding 0 bytes to the end of "shutdown.sh" would not do any damage (it would only alter the last modification time of that file, which you could see with "ls -l shutdown.sh"). So you'll have to retrieve the "shutdown.sh" script from your Tomcat distribution. Then to use it, just invoke it. Since it usually does not run indefinitely and does not produce a lot of output or usually any particularly interesting output, there's no need to redirect its output. I recommend that people recently switching from Windows to Linux or another Unix-like system get some tutorial materials on these basics. There are some vague similarities with Windows, but a lot is different and groping around in the dark is not really advisable. Good luck. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 04:21 2002-08-26, khozaima shakir wrote: >Hi Jhair, >yes, I am running tomcat from shell. >About shoutdown, I shutdown tomcat by : > shutdown.sh >Thanks >Shakir -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
