OpenMRS should be writing to the logs during startup including, I believe, if the database connection fails. Can you verify that the process running the war (i.e., tomcat user) has write-access to the log files? You may not be seeing any log entries because the war cannot reach the logs.
-Burke On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Maurice Barasa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > What would cause Openmrs.war file fail to start after deploying. problem is > that tomcat logs are not showing anything. cleared the logs to a folder to > have a fresh set of log files to be able to easily detect the problem but > the logs are not being updated with any error still nothing shows up in the > new log files. > > Regards, > > *Maurice Barasa* > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]

