RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-17 Thread Shapira, Yoav
a webapp running inside tomcat reboot its own server. Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics -Original Message- From: Matthew Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:40 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime If I remember rightly, the Enhydra

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-16 Thread Matthew Clark
scripts... These are just called from an admin console that runs outside of the tomcat (PHP). Regards, Matthew -Original Message- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 May 2004 14:30 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime NB As a relative novice

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-15 Thread Kevin D. Offet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 a daemon thread is just an ordinary thread that has been set as a daemon. their purpose is to be servant threads. when there are only daemon threads left a program will exit. as such, it executes in the same jvm instance as it's parent. parent spawns

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-15 Thread QM
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 03:17:02PM -0400, Kevin D. Offet wrote: : i don't know about other OS, but the process control features of the : bash shell on linux would allow what i think you are trying to achieve. Yes, shortly after I posted that message I did more digging on Java threads and

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, 1. The original question was if there is some highly tomcat-specific code that enables a reboot at runtime. Spending very little time going through the source code of catalina, it seems to me that even highly tomcat- specific code does not support a reboot a runtime. This is true, which is

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread Richard Calosso
9:02 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime Hi, What's running your program (in order to wait and issue a startup command) after you've done a shutdown? ;) (Unless you're talking about highly tomcat-specific code that shuts down tomcat and leaves the JVM itself running

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread Shapira, Yoav
, 2004 9:02 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime Hi, What's running your program (in order to wait and issue a startup command) after you've done a shutdown? ;) (Unless you're talking about highly tomcat-specific code that shuts down tomcat and leaves the JVM itself

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread QM
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:06:17PM -0400, Shapira, Yoav wrote: : : Any portable solutions (that would work on windows, not just unix, and : on MacOS)? A *very* alpha-tasting version is available at: http://downloads.brandxdev.net/tomcat-479785/listenexec-0.1.0alpha.tar.gz (written in Java)

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, How would the webapp invoke this listener? Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics -Original Message- From: QM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:55 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat reboot runtime On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:06:17PM -0400

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread QM
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:05:41PM -0400, Shapira, Yoav wrote: : Reply-To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] : How would the webapp invoke this listener? The listener would be started outside of the container, in a separate process. A (protected) JSP/servlet run wihtin the container would

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-14 Thread QM
It just hit me -- what about a (protected) servlet that spawns a daemon thread, which in turn calls Runtime.exec( tomcat stop / start script)? Admittedly, I'm hazy on my Java threading right now, but if that would work then it's something that's completley within the container, and no more than

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Adam Buglass
Wouldn't it be possible to restart tomcat by writing a server-side program to trigger a shell-script?? Of course that may disrupt the operation of the website itself - I'd have to consult the docs to be clearer on that. If Yoav says it can't be done then I'm sure we'd be wasting our time by

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime Wouldn't it be possible to restart tomcat by writing a server-side program to trigger a shell-script?? Of course that may disrupt the operation of the website itself - I'd have to consult the docs to be clearer on that. If Yoav says it can't be done

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Timothy_Sabin
Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject RE: Tomcat reboot runtime Hi, I, on the other hand, would be interested to see what you come up with, so don't stop your train of thought on my account. Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics -Original Message- From: Adam Buglass

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread QM
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:23:17AM -0400, Shapira, Yoav wrote: : I, on the other hand, would be interested to see what you come up with, : so don't stop your train of thought on my account. If you're looking for a full restart, there are several ways (in varying levels of hackishness). Once

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Shapira, Yoav
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:55 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime Personally, I don't see why the scheme that Adam came up with wouldn't work. You would want your program to do a shutdown, wait, then issue

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Adam Buglass
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:55 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat reboot runtime Personally, I don't see why the scheme that Adam came up with wouldn't work. You would want your program to do a shutdown, wait, then issue a startup command

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, No to both. Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics -Original Message- From: Rudolf Feyerkleist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat reboot runtime Is there a way to restart tomcat from a webapplication running

RE: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread Rudolf Feyerkleist
1. The original question was if there is some highly tomcat-specific code that enables a reboot at runtime. Spending very little time going through the source code of catalina, it seems to me that even highly tomcat-specific code does not support a reboot a runtime. 2. One solution could be to

Re: Tomcat reboot runtime

2004-05-13 Thread QM
: [snip: discussion re: ways to restart Tomcat, preferably : through Tomcat itself] Option #4: a listener that exists outside the Tomcat process, which calls the container start/stop scripts on command. I'm whipping up a prototype now: it's a basic socket listener that stores the path to the