RE: Tomcat 4.1.18 - Startup script for linux not working

[Christian Schlaefcke]

Hi John,

su - user -c startup.sh start IS the "normal" way...at least, I've never
seen it any other way.  What is "daemon"?  Is that something your Linux
distro has?

Hmmm, just got a bit further. The functions script in "/etc/rc.d/init.d/" contains a function called daemon. I Don�t know what it�s doing exactly (guess something like starting tomcat as daemon??). This is a bit to complicated I think I leave it like: "su - $TOMCAT_USER -c "$TOMCAT_SCRIPT start"".

Thank you!

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Schlaefcke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tomcat 4.1.18 - Startup script for linux not working
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem with the startup of tomcat since I upgraded
> Tomcat 4.1.17
> to 4.1.18. I just downloaded the tar.gz file and extracted it into
> /var/tomcat4.
> Since that the startup script ("/etc/init.d/tomcat4" with
> "start") says
> "[OK]", but the server won�t come up. After some research I
> found that a
> single line in this script is not working any more.
>
> [...]
> # See how we were called.
> start() {
>      echo -n "Starting $TOMCAT_PROG: "
>
>      if [ -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ]; then
> #######################################################
> # This line is called, but it won�t start the server
> #######################################################
>          daemon --user $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_SCRIPT start
>      else
>          su - $TOMCAT_USER -c "$TOMCAT_SCRIPT start"
>      fi
>
>      RETVAL=$?
>      echo
>      [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat4
>      return $RETVAL
> }
> [...]
>
> When I replace the line: "daemon --user $TOMCAT_USER
> $TOMCAT_SCRIPT start"
> by "su - $TOMCAT_USER -c "$TOMCAT_SCRIPT start"" the server
> comes up. Why
> is the "normal" way not working?
>
> Thank you for any hints!
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
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