Hi Andre', as you will, i am trying to get all the help i can get from any source, reason i indicated the OS type and tomcat version and the log errors!!
i could chance on someone who has used a similar combination and encountered a similar problem.- thanks for laboring to reply all the same - i will definitely try your leads. Cheers, Simon On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:35 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Hi. > > I think that for this issue, you would get better/quicker help from a Linux > admin forum. > > I am not trying to brush you off, but this looks like an issue having to do > with the way recent versions of Linux manage "services", rather than with > Tomcat itself. > The expertise of the people on this list is with Tomcat itself, rather than > with all the different ways in which different OS-es manage such "services". > > This being said, if you have problems finding out why Tomcat died in the > first place, then this would be the right list to ask. > But then, provide : > - the Tomcat version (x.y.z) > - the Java version > - the (full) OS and version > - the lines in the Tomcat log files that are relevant > (this can be in /var/log/tomcat55/*.log, or /var/log/daemon, or similar > places (also depending on the OS)) > > > > Simon Peter Lwanjo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Some help from the forum - i am relatively new to administering Tomcat. >> >>> >>> Apache Tomcat on one of our Redhat Linux servers won't start. The service >>> status says "tomcat55 dead but subsys locked" >>> >>> You cannot kill the service because the PID is not locatable. >>> >>> >>> Anyone? >>> >>> >>> >>> Simon >>> >>> >> >> >> - >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tomcat.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Simon P. Lwanjo Technical Director Preg-Tech Communications Ltd Authorised for Shyam Telecom (Uganda & Rwanda) Plot 822 Mawanda Road – Kamwokya (K’la). Show rm: Serena Conference center – Suite 333 P.O.Box 34902 Kampala (U) Tel: 256-414-666829, 256-712-659905 Email: slwa...@yahoo.com , slwa...@preg-tech.co.ug www.preg-tech.co.ug