Ok this is resolved. It was permission issue. now tomcat runs under its own user id and for some reason I missed to read tomcat.conf file.
Now it works however server start up is now very slow. INFO: Server startup in 352544 ms something which was very fast in earlier version 7.081 and 7.050 Let me check logs tomorrow for finer details. Thanking you Kiran Badi I will On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Couple of hours(3 hrs) back I did yum update to install 7.0.82 version to > install latest security patch. > > Yum update went well. Then tried to install ROOT war, after stopping and > un deploying existing ROOT.war. Deployment failed saying that ROOT folder > already exists. So deleted ROOT folder and ROOT.war from the web apps > folder. After this step, tomcat 7 seems to be not starting for some reason > and neither its writing to logs anything. > > I think I messed something very badly. > > How do I figure this out. Do I need to do clean install again via wget ? > > I hate to say that my linux skills are very rusty. so appreciate some help. > > [root]# sudo service tomcat7 start > [root]# [ OK ] > [root]# sudo service tomcat7 status > [root]# s not running [WARNING] > > whenever I try to restart , the only place it writes is tomcat7-initd.log > > /usr/sbin/tomcat7: line 40: /usr/share/tomcat7/logs/catalina.out: > Permission denied > > and permissions I have on this folder is > > drwxr-xr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 12288 Oct 27 02:07 /usr/share/tomcat7/logs/ > > > > Thanking you > Kiran Badi > > > > > > > > >
