Peter Tribble wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Petr Sumbera <Petr.Sumbera at sun.com> wrote: >>>> The original idea was to deliver /var/run/tomcat6 directory via >>>> package so that tomcat could write into it. It was wrong.. >>>> >>>> As tomcat6 is started with 'webservd' credential it's not able to >>>> write into /var/run. Therefore I'm proposing to change pid file >>>> location to: >>>> >>>> /var/tomcat6/logs/pid Committed PID file > > What if there are multiple instances of tomcat running? Don't you > need per-instance locations? > > (On my systems, the pid file ends up in $CATALINA_BASE/logs, > which seems the obvious place to put it. That's the same as above > if CATALINA_BASE is /var/tomcat6, but allows for additional instances.)
pid file will be created only when it's started via SMF. Tomcat started via SMF doesn't allow multiple instances as CATALINA_BASE is set to /var/tomcat6 and is not changeable. To have more Tomcat SMF instances is beyond this case. If ordinary user starts it own instance of Tomcat like this: "CATALINA_BASE=/home/user/mytomcat /usr/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh start" Pid file is not created (unless CATALINA_PID environment variable is defined). Petr
