Hi,
This is my script to start tomcat using jsvc. It works fine with me, you can
try it. make sure to change variable values according to your environment.
Also make sure that your script has execute permissions.
#!/bin/sh
##############################################################################
#
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_12
CATALINA_HOME=/var/lib/tomcat
DAEMON_HOME=/var/lib/tomcat/bin
TOMCAT_USER=root
TMP_DIR=/var/tmp
CATALINA_OPTS=
CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$DAEMON_HOME/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar
start() {
#
# Start Tomcat
#
$DAEMON_HOME/jsvc \
-user $TOMCAT_USER \
-home $JAVA_HOME \
-Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
-Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMP_DIR \
-errfile '&1' \
-pidfile /var/run/jsvc.pid \
-outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
$CATALINA_OPTS \
-cp $CLASSPATH \
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
#
# To get a verbose JVM
#-verbose \
# To get a debug of jsvc.
#-debug \
}
stop(){
#
# Stop Tomcat
#
PID=`cat /var/run/jsvc.pid`
kill $PID
sleep 3
}
restart(){
if [ -e /var/run/jsvc.pid ]; then
printf "shutting down tomcat \n"
stop
sleep 2
fi
printf "starting up tomcat...\n"
start
sleep 2
printf "tomcat started.\n"
}
status(){
if [ -e /var/run/jsvc.pid ]; then
printf "tomcat is running\n"
fi
if [ ! -e /var/run/jsvc.pid ]; then
printf "tomcat is *not* running.\n"
fi
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
status)
status
;;
restart)
if [ -e /var/run/jsvc.pid ]; then
printf "shutting down tomcat \n"
stop
sleep 3
fi
printf "starting up tomcat...\n"
start
sleep 2
printf "tomcat started.\n"
;;
stop)
stop
;;
*)
echo "Usage tomcat start/stop/restart/status"
exit 1;;
esac
-Azhar
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Fred Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've run into a problem with jsvc. In our environment we need to run
> tomcat
> as root so that it can bind to several low numbered ports.
>
> However, when using the "-user root" argument to jsvc, tomcat still can't
> bind
> to the ports.
>
> If we run tomcat directly (as root) with its "startup.sh", everything
> works fine.
>
> In researching this, I found a reference where someone claimed there was a
> problem
> with the set_cap() capabilities support in jsvc. I've looked at the
> source, but I don't know
> enough about how that's supposed to work to know if it's correct or not. I
> was
> hoping to find a patch somewhere, but no luck so far.
>
> Has anyone on the list run into this? Is there a patch available? Or a
> work-around?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Fred Toth
>
>
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