I am unable to shutdown tomcat. When I do ./shutdown.sh, I don't see any error, but the process still seems to be running. I don't want to do a kill -9. How do I gracefully shut it down? Why is this happening in the first place? Please help asap.
devServer:bin dev$ ps -ef|grep tomcat 501 34933 1 0 11:24PM test 0:02.02 /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/Users/dev/admin/runtime/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/Users/dev/admin/runtime/endorsed -classpath /Users/dev/admin/runtime/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/dev/admin/runtime/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/Users/dev/admin/runtime -Dcatalina.home=/Users/dev/admin/runtime -Djava.io.tmpdir=/Users/dev/admin/runtime/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 501 34982 33786 0 11:45PM test 0:00.00 grep tomcat devServer:bin dev$ ./shutdown.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/dev/admin/runtime Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/dev/admin/runtime Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/dev/admin/runtime/temp Using JRE_HOME: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home Using CLASSPATH: /Users/dev/admin/runtime/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/dev/admin/runtime/bin/tomcat-juli.jar devServer:bin dev$ ps -ef|grep tomcat 501 34933 1 0 11:24PM test 0:02.03 /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/Users/dev/admin/runtime/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/Users/dev/admin/runtime/endorsed -classpath /Users/dev/admin/runtime/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/dev/admin/runtime/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/Users/dev/admin/runtime -Dcatalina.home=/Users/dev/admin/runtime -Djava.io.tmpdir=/Users/dev/admin/runtime/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start 501 34992 33786 0 11:45PM test 0:00.00 grep tomcat devServer:bin dev$