On Jan 15, 2014, at 11:01 AM, "Bush, Eddie" <eddie.b...@williams.com> wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Mikusa [mailto:dmik...@gopivotal.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:54 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: [tomcat7] rhel 6 - init.d script works; does not start on reboot
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> On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:32 AM, "Bush, Eddie" <eddie.b...@williams.com> wrote:
> 
>> Howdy, List!
>> 
>> I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I'm a senior dev, and quite good at that, but 
>> for my new client I'm also charged with configuring our machines. We're 
>> running on Tomcat 7, so I grabbed the tgz and installed it per the 
>> instructions.
>> 
>> Everything works great! ... until I reboot the server :) At that point, 
>> everything else comes up, but tomcat does not.
>> 
>> I have removed all logs and rebooted and see nothing notable in any of the 
>> tomcat logs (because, of course, it did not start), nor can I find anything 
>> in syslog or messages. The chkconfig command reports that the script is 
>> configured to run for runlevel 2-5, and I've even inspected the links in 
>> rc.d/rc*.d and they are linked to the init.d script (which is the same 
>> danged script that works interactively via "service tomcat start/stop"!)
> 
> Dan> Where did you get the init script from?
> EB> Off the net somewhere, initially. I tweaked it to use sudo to change user 
> to tomcat:tomcat though, and I changed the chkconfig declaration to be 
> extremely similar to what nginx uses, since that works fine. chkconfig likes 
> the script, and sets it up in what looks to be perfect form (comparing to 
> other things). These are pretty standard scripts though, yes? They basically 
> just delegate to the scripts distributed with tomcat, which all end up 
> calling catalina.sh :-)

Since it's not standard, can you include it here?  It may be perfectly fine, 
but it would be nice to see it regardless.

Also, can you confirm that the init script is actually being called?  It would 
be helpful to know how far things get before they break down.  Since you've 
said that *no* Tomcat logs get created, I would expect that things don't get 
very far.  Maybe add some logging / echo statements to see what does and 
doesn't run.

> 
>> 
>> This may be more of a *nix question than a tomcat question, but I thought 
>> I'd try here first since it is in the context of tomcat itself.
>> 
>> Thoughts? Suggestions?
> 
> Dan> Have you verified that user / permissions are set correct to run as a 
> service?  Keep in mind that running as a service may be running Tomcat as a 
> different user.
> EB> I guess I'm not sure what you mean here. Apologies. However, I did chown 
> -R tomcat:tomcat on the entire install. First start after that reminded me I 
> needed to clean the logs out before expecting it to work :-) but I can now 
> start this interactively using "sudo service tomcat start" and stop it, etc.
> EB> Perhaps I should add that I was raised on Unix, including being schooled 
> in Unix administration. It's been years, but I do have a decent amount of 
> experience with Unix, shell scripting, etc. :-)

Sounds like you've got the general idea of what I was saying here.  Good to 
know how the permissions are set on the Tomcat directory.

Dan

> 
> Dan
> 
>> I have Google'd myself to death! I'm at my wits end! I'm honestly at the 
>> point of thinking about punting this issue until another day or possibly 
>> resigning to making sure that any workflow which involves a server reboot 
>> includes a step for starting tomcat (yuck!).
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any input!
>> 
>> Eddie
>> 
>> 
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