I need to bounce tomcat (run a stop, startup script) but from a remote machine.
SSH will not work. Tomcat runs as 'tomcat_user' and this user is not a ssh user so we cannot ssh into a box using this user. We have to ssh into the box with our exchange credentials and then $sudo su - tomcat _user to do the startup / shutdown. Is there any other way to programatially stop/start comcat? Ideally I would like to do this with gradle but there is no plugin so far: gradle tomcat plugin ( only works on a local tomcat, not a remote ) gradle cargo plugin ( does not have a task that will stop & restart tomcat) Unfortunately gradle is a bit lacking at the moment, ideally a single call to a gradle or ant task would be nice to bounce the server ( from a remote machine ). thanks J.V.
