I was referring to the .pid file Tomcat server creates in the logs directory. This file contains the process ID of the Tomcat process.
Regards, Anilkumar Ambati 4205 S Miami Blvd WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Development Durham, 27703-9141 Phone: +1-919-254-6152 USA Mobile: +1-919-434-5674 e-mail: aamb...@us.ibm.com "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish." -Richard Feynman (1918-1988) From: David kerber <dcker...@verizon.net> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>, Date: 11/04/2014 03:45 PM Subject: Re: PID file locked on Windows 2008 system On 11/4/2014 2:58 PM, Anil Ambati wrote: > Hi, > We have a requirement to read the PID file created by the Tomcat server > process on Windows, but we are not able to using RandomAccessFile or > FileInputStream because the file seems to be locked by the Tomcat process. What is the PID file? The only abbreviation I know by that name is the Process ID, which is just a number. > > > Why does the Tomcat server keep the PID file locked, preventing other > processes to even read the file? Is there a work around or solution for > this problem? > > Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance. > > > Regards, > > > Regards, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Anilkumar Ambati* 4205 S Miami Blvd > WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Development Durham, 27703-9141 > Phone: +1-919-254-6152 USA > Mobile: +1-919-434-5674 > e-mail: aamb...@us.ibm.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you > ought to accomplish." -Richard Feynman (1918-1988) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
