I am unable to shutdown my tomcat gracefully. Everytime I try to shutdown tomcat, this is the error I get.
test@17.198.48.77:/Users/test/software/tomcat/bin>./startup.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/test/software/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/test/software/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/test/software/tomcat/temp Using JRE_HOME: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home Using CLASSPATH: /Users/test/software/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/test/software/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar test@17.198.48.77:/Users/test/software/tomcat/bin>./shutdown.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/test/software/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/test/software/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/test/software/tomcat/temp Using JRE_HOME: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home Using CLASSPATH: /Users/test/software/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/test/software/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar Feb 14, 2014 6:37:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer SEVERE: Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:382) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:241) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:228) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:431) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:527) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:476) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:373) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:187) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:499) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:371) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:453) I have also tried killing, restarting, and ./shutdown.sh, installing tomcat again, changing port number. Nothing seems to be helping. Please advise.
