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On 3/10/2011 4:02 PM, Robinson, Eric wrote: >>> The only filesystem involved is the local ext3 one that >> tomcat lives on. >>> I can stop and start tomcat as many times as I want and >> everything is >>> fine. But when I reboot the server, the next time tomcat >> comes up the >>> XML files get deleted. This only happens to the 70 or so >> instrances of >>> tomcat6 running on two separate RHEL 5.3 servers. It does >> not happens >>> on the 200 instances of tomcat5 running on our other RHEL servers. >>> >> >> I'll bite. >> >> How do you stop and start Tomcat(s) when you are not >> rebooting the server ? >> > > We stop and start tomcat using the command 'service tomcat6_XXX stop' > (or start) where XXX is a 3-digit code for the particular instrance of > tomcat. You said you were using an ASF package. Have you rolled your own init.d scripts? Would you care to share one with us? >> Obviously, something different is happening in one case or the other. >> Since the JVM which runs Tomcat, and the Tomcat code itself, >> is (presumably) the same in both cases, logic would have it >> that the suspect must be outside Tomcat itself. >> > > I can't disagree with the logic. I'm just having a hard time imagining > what it would be. Nonstandard scripts can pretty much do anything, including "rm -rf $CATALINA_HOME/conf/*/*/*.xml" which would certainly do it ;) Try using "diff" on the scripts that launches Tomcat5 versus Tomcat6. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk16piwACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBTPwCfa2GkB2l2qfuQIL4cQth4IPqM j8cAoIlEJ9uFbnCrPSy4UhA8lDXRETkm =1LsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
