Re: tomcat no longer writing to log files
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Steve Ochani wrote: > Really? Your cv/resume indicates otherwise. > > Sure your phd is in neuroscience but your current employment is listed as > "Scientific Programmer" and so was your last employment. > > Considering that you are "Proficient" in things such as "C/C++/C#, PHP ... > Linux OS" > you should have considered that letting people know some details about your > configuration/system would have helped. > That's just marketing. If you look more carefully, I've never worked outside of academia. I've even tried, and I can't get a job as a real programmer. My father and brother are both real programmers, and I understand the difference between what they know and what I know. But when trying to get a job in science doing programming, the academics that tend to hire you like to see "proficiency", where my proficiency in any of those languages is probably less than yours. > Anyways, as stated by other people, get rid of the ubuntu packaged Tomcat > and install the > official one, also use a real Java version from SUN. Working on it. I didn't realize that Ubuntu packages were the potentially more difficult route. I'd made the false assumption that they might simplify things for me. > Also, tomcat does work "out of the box". Incorrect administration of any > system will stop it > from working out of the box. Honestly, what I'm most frustrated about isn't Tomcat, per say, but the stuff written by my colleagues that should work with Tomcat. I'm a bit baffled how the über-cross-platform Java (and its disciples Ant and Tomcat) could be used to create code that is extraordinarily sensitive to the version and platforms on which it is compiled and run. I suppose that's just because the code was poorly written, and you could probably write platform- and version-dependent code in any language, but it would have been nice if I could have installed whatever the latest packages were on my system, and compiled and run successfully the first time. Instead I'm spending upwards of a week learning all the internals. I guess that's useful in the long run, but I could just use some good and patient guidance. Sorry to have stepped on anybody's toes, and thank you all for your help. :) Michael
Re: tomcat no longer writing to log files
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:11 PM, André Warnier wrote: > If you did install this tomcat with the apt utility, then just do > - apt-get remove tomcatx.y > - apt-get purge tomcatx.y > > Then, make sure that the java you have is a Sun Java, not gcj, and make it > the default (update-alternatives java). > Then > - apt-get install tomcatx.y > and it should just magically run again. > Hmm ... well now I've gone and made things worse again. André's advice sounded good, but I'd basically already done this using the Synapic Package Manager, and it didn't help. So I decided, foolishly, to take it one step farther. I removed, and purged, then searched the system for anything Tomcat related, and deleted that stuff too. Then when I reinstalled, Tomcat didn't get reinstalled under /etc nor /etc/init.d, and it didn't get started automatically as it had before. So is there some way to auto-recreate those magic startup scripts? I know I could just start it manually, or create the scripts myself, but they used to be there before I stupidly removed them. How do I get them back? Sad, tired, and frustrated. I'm going home. :( Michael
Re: tomcat no longer writing to log files
Seems like a bit of animosity toward Tomcat has finally helped me make progress, mostly because it got all you gurus to actually explain a bit of how it works, and how it's packaged, all concepts I didn't understand. I'm a scientist, not a programmer. I'm new to Ubuntu and Tomcat. My colleagues have been completely unhelpful in this process. It works on their systems, so they've just left me to struggle on my own. My frustration is further fueled by the fact that the web site that our application will soon handle (http://neuroanalysis.org/toolkit/) is working just fine as static html; it doesn't change much, and most of the pages (not viewable externally) are generated automatically from code, using m2html or doxygen. But now they want me to integrate this site into the JSP format seen at the root (http://neuroanalysis.org/), despite the fact that I have zero experience with Tomcat, Java, or JSP, and nearly no web application development experience. It would have been nice if Tomcat just worked, out of the box, but it took me a couple days just to get it up and running. Now Tomcat works, at least the default page and the example webapps, but the application that my colleagues built won't work. This is their fault, as far as I'm concerned, yet there's nothing I can do to force them to improve what is probably sloppy code on their part. So I'm just looking for some help. Sorry to insult Tomcat, but thanks for the useful feedback. I'll work on the suggestions and let you know if I can't make any progress. :) Michael
Re: tomcat no longer writing to log files
Well, actually, I did this stupid thing under Ubuntu Linux. I've even now gone through the process of completely uninstalling and reinstalling the Tomcat packages, and it doesn't help. So now, not only does our application not work on my local machine, but I can't figure out why because Tomcat won't give me error messages. I think I'm going to give up on Tomcat entirely ... crappy piece of software. I take it that you have nothing useful to contribute to my problem? Michael Repucci (M) 718-288-4554 (W) 212-746-0462 mich...@repucci.org http://michael.repucci.org/ --See life as it is, not as it appears to be. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Michael A. Repucci wrote: > >> Yes. That changed nothing. Still no catalina.out, still no ourapp.log. >> >> Well, that'll teach you to do stupid things like that under Windows. > > Seriously now, if this was one of my customers calling me to tell me the > same story, I would ask them "and what else did you do that you're not > telling us ?" > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
Re: juddi -Tomcat 6
http://ws.apache.org/juddi/ Michael Repucci (M) 718-288-4554 (W) 212-746-0462 mich...@repucci.org http://michael.repucci.org/ --See life as it is, not as it appears to be. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:16 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Arundhati Chabukswar wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Can someone help me set up or give me directions to set up a juddi in the >> Tomcat 6.0 server and provide directions to the dependancy files required. >> >> Can't help you, but I'm always happy to see a new word appear on this > forum. What's a juddi ? > Don't tell me blogs and wiki etc.. are now already passé ? > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
Re: tomcat no longer writing to log files
Yes. That changed nothing. Still no catalina.out, still no ourapp.log. Michael Repucci (M) 718-288-4554 (W) 212-746-0462 mich...@repucci.org http://michael.repucci.org/ --See life as it is, not as it appears to be. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:09 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Michael A. Repucci wrote: > >> Hi Tomcat'ers, >> >> I'm completely new to Tomcat, and very unfamiliar with JSP or web >> applications in general. I've been trying to set up an application on my >> system (Ubuntu 9.04) that works just fine on my colleagues' systems >> (Windows >> XP). I've got Tomcat working just fine, and the manager and demo >> applications all work. But loading our application was giving me errors. >> Before I can let you know what the errors are, I need help making Tomcat >> write them once again to the log files. See, I did a silly thing. I wanted >> to clear the log files (catalina.out and ourapp.log), so I just opened >> them, >> emptied them, and resaved them. (Dumb, I know. I was getting frustrated.) >> Lo >> and behold, Tomcat stopped writing to them, even after completely >> restarting >> my computer. How can I get Tomcat to rewrite to these files? I've searched >> all over this group's archive and the web, and the closest thing I found >> was >> this not so helpful suggestion ( >> http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=107947604330561&w=2). Any ideas? >> >> Did you try stopping Tomcat, deleting these logfiles altogether, and > restarting Tomcat ? > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
Re: What is the difference?
The "java -version" returns the version of the JVM you're using. The "java version" attempts to start a Java application whose class name is version. See the man pages for java for more information. Michael Repucci (M) 718-288-4554 (W) 212-746-0462 mich...@repucci.org http://michael.repucci.org/ --See life as it is, not as it appears to be. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Dave Filchak wrote: > Curious, > > What is the difference between java -version and java version? > > In the first case I get: > > java -version > java version "1.6.0_13" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03) > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode) > > In the second, I get: > > java version > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: version > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: version > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) > Could not find the main class: version. Program will exit. > > > Dave > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
tomcat no longer writing to log files
Hi Tomcat'ers, I'm completely new to Tomcat, and very unfamiliar with JSP or web applications in general. I've been trying to set up an application on my system (Ubuntu 9.04) that works just fine on my colleagues' systems (Windows XP). I've got Tomcat working just fine, and the manager and demo applications all work. But loading our application was giving me errors. Before I can let you know what the errors are, I need help making Tomcat write them once again to the log files. See, I did a silly thing. I wanted to clear the log files (catalina.out and ourapp.log), so I just opened them, emptied them, and resaved them. (Dumb, I know. I was getting frustrated.) Lo and behold, Tomcat stopped writing to them, even after completely restarting my computer. How can I get Tomcat to rewrite to these files? I've searched all over this group's archive and the web, and the closest thing I found was this not so helpful suggestion ( http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=107947604330561&w=2). Any ideas? Michael Repucci (M) 718-288-4554 (W) 212-746-0462 mich...@repucci.org http://michael.repucci.org/ --See life as it is, not as it appears to be.
