Hi Tim, yes, at least the later Tomcat release of HP has such a ServerInfo.properties method
# find /opt/hpws/tomcat -type f -name catalina.jar|xargs -n1 jar tf|grep -F ServerInfo.properties org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties # cd /tmp # find /opt/hpws/tomcat -type f -name catalina.jar|xargs -n 1 -I CLASS jar xf CLASS org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties # ll /tmp/org/apache/catalina/util total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 30 Feb 2 11:01 ServerInfo.properties # file /tmp/org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties /tmp/org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties: sed program text # cat /tmp/org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties server.info=Apache Tomcat/4.1 Ok, this is probably a pretty weird hack to identify a Tomcat, but it seems to be sufficiently reliable, and can be casted into a script. So from the proc table entry of the running Java master thread I will have to parse the full args token to retreive the classpath and jar dirs in the startup command line. Then I could run this find and extract stuff like above. What I still dislike is the need for a temporal extraction directory for a mere 30 byte string. I will have to find out a way if I could extract this into a pipe. Still, I would hope the Tomcat developers could devise an easy and straight forward way to query this info from the shell. Come on lads, this should only take less than half an hour for a decent Java hacker. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 6:39 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: How to identify version of a running Tomcat and similar > trivia > > > Tomcat is like any server based java app. It will always > require a convulted > classpath as well as multiple classloaders to do anything interesting. > > The most failsafe way to get the version regarless of the > packaging is to do > the following: (no, i'm not kidding) > 1) find catalina.jar. It *should* be in > server/lib/catalina.jar of your > tomcat installation > 2) Open it with winzip like program > 3) Look for ServerInfo.properties (in org/apache/catalina/util/) > 4) In that file is ther server version > > The version.sh script is just a wrapper the created the > appropriate classpath > so that the properties file can be loaded. > > > -Tim > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > <SNIP> > > > > Only problem is, my Tomcat depot on this box (randomly picked one > > of our HP-UX boxes, but we also have Tomcats running on Linux, > > AIX, Solaris (and probably Win32) doesn't seem to have bundled > > such a wrapper script. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
