I'm migrating a 5.5 version of tomcat. Whoever set this up in the first place,
modified catalina.sh to make every stop a force. Here's the modified stop
section of catalina.sh.
# Force a shutdown every time.
# if [ $FORCE -eq 1 ]; then
if [ ! -z "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
echo "Killing: `cat $CATALINA_PID`"
kill -9 `cat $CATALINA_PID`
rm $CATALINA_PID
else
echo "Kill failed: \$CATALINA_PID not set"
fi
# fi
I'm hoping to remove this completely during the modification. But I'd like to
make a best effort attempt to understand why someone would have done this.
Does anyone know of any common reasons, or, shall we say, valid reasons for
making this modification?
