Package: tomcat9 Version: 9.0.16-4 In debian 10 (buster)
/usr/share/tomcat9/bin/catalina.sh is ignoring the CATALINA_PID variable therefore does not generate a PID file accordingly. example startup command : set -a; JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64"; source "/etc/default/tomcat9"; CATALINA_HOME="/usr/share/tomcat9"; CATALINA_BASE="/var/lib/tomcat9"; JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -server -Xmx1280M -Xms1280M -Xss2M -Dfile.encoding=EUC-JP -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/volatile/dump/db2-11-test2 -Dcom.atson.test=true -Dcom.atson.local=false -Dcom.atson.webapp=true -Dcom.atson.useDB2Type4=false -Dcom.atson.useDataSourceResource=true -Dcom.atson.XLINK_VIA_GW=true"; \ CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat9.pid"; CATALINA_TMPDIR="/tmp/tomcat9-tomcat9-tmp"; LANG="C.UTF-8"; JSSE_HOME=""; cd "/var/lib/tomcat9"; "/usr/share/tomcat9/bin/catalina.sh" start The origin of the problem can be found in this line (actually 2 identical lines) : 2\>\&1 \&\& echo \$! \>\"$catalina_pid_file\" \; \} $catalina_out_command "&" with this change it works as expected : -2\>\&1 \&\& echo \$! \>\"$catalina_pid_file\" \; \} $catalina_out_command "&" +2\>\&1 \& echo \$! \>\"$catalina_pid_file\" \; \} $catalina_out_command "&"
