Progress. Uninstalled the FC10 tomcat6 (it does need documentation, asp classes, servlet api classes, ROOT + examples, and other deps)
Reinstalled from tc main site. As root. In $CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc-src/native there is a file Tomcat.sh which, when updated for various changes 1. paths. 2. PID (now tomcat6 rather than the original jsvc name) 3. I've added a restart option. Produces a working jsvc script... when run by root. Below if of interest to anyone. The envars are for my setup. # This is for of Tomcat-6.x (Apache Tomcat 6) # # Adapt the following lines to your configuration JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default CATALINA_HOME=/apps/tomcat6 DAEMON_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME/bin TOMCAT_USER=dpawson PIDFILE=/var/run/tomcat6.pid TMP_DIR=/tmp CATALINA_OPTS= CLASSPATH=\ $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\ $DAEMON_HOME/commons-daemon.jar:\ $CATALINA_HOME=/bin/bootstrap.jar case "$1" in start) # # Start Tomcat # $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc \ -user $TOMCAT_USER \ -home $JAVA_HOME \ -pidfile $PIDFILE \ -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \ -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \ -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \ -errfile '&1' \ $CATALINA_OPTS \ -cp $CLASSPATH \ org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService # # To get a verbose JVM #-verbose \ # To get a debug of jsvc. #-debug \ ;; stop) # # Stop Tomcat # PID=`cat $PIDFILE` if [ -f $PIDFILE ] then kill $PID else echo "No PID, TC not running?" fi ;; restart) # # Stop Tomcat # PID=`cat $PIDFILE` if [ -f $PIDFILE ] then kill $PID else echo "No PID, TC not running?" fi # # Start Tomcat # $DAEMON_HOME/jsvc \ -user $TOMCAT_USER \ -home $JAVA_HOME \ -pidfile $PIDFILE \ -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \ -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \ -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \ -errfile '&1' \ $CATALINA_OPTS \ -cp $CLASSPATH \ org.apache.catalina.startup.BootstrapService PID=`cat $PIDFILE` echo "Tomcat now running, PID is $PID" ;; *) echo "Usage tomcat.sh start/stop" exit 1;; esac Thanks for the help. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org