On 17.03.2020 21:43, Maxfield, Rebecca A wrote:
Ah, some problems are arising because, I suppose, the startup process wants to 
create or touch something in ../logs and that's now all the way over in 
/var/lib/tomcat8. How do I move on from here?

Try (as root) : service tomcat8 start  (or restart or stop ..)

As mentioned before, the Debian package is assembled in such a way that it will function in the same way as other "services" in the Debian environment, log in the same general place etc..
The above command in fact runs the shell script at /etc/init.d/tomcat8.
This script sets a number of variables before calling tomcat's startup.sh, changes to the approriate directory etc..

If you want a tomcat8 which is installed in a single directory, and which reacts in the "canonical" way as explained on the tomcat website, then you would have to de-install the Debian tomcat8 package, and install tomcat8 as per the tomcat website.
But that's probably, in your case, more work than necessary.
You just want to run some tomcat applications (webapps), right ?



On 3/17/20, 4:40 PM, "Maxfield, Rebecca A" <rmaxf...@providence.edu> wrote:

     I see it now in /usr/share/tomcat8/bin, thank you! Can I just run 
startup.sh from there or is that not right?
On 3/17/20, 4:37 PM, "André Warnier (tomcat/perl)" <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: On 17.03.2020 21:18, Maxfield, Rebecca A wrote:
         > Both are Linux. The new is Debian, the old ??
On a Debian Linux system, tomcat 8 installed via the standard Debian package manager
         results in some files appearing in the following directories (and 
maybe others)
         - /etc/tomcat8
         - /usr/share/tomcat8
         - /var/lib/tomcat8
         - /var/log/tomcat8
         - .. ?
         Some of the entries in these directories are links pointing somewhere 
else. It is
         sometimes a bit difficult to follow. But it works, and it allows 
tomcat to be managed
         using the Debian usual commands for starting/stopping services, 
install updates etc..
Use this command to see a full list of the directories/files used :
         dpkg --listfiles tomcat8
(Note : this gives a list of directories/files initially reated or installed by the
         standard Debian tomcat8 package. But it does not include anything 
created/installed later
         on maybe to "customise" tomcat8 on that machine).
>
         > On 3/17/20, 4:03 PM, "André Warnier (tomcat/perl)" <a...@ice-sa.com> 
wrote:
         >
         >      On 17.03.2020 19:52, Maxfield, Rebecca A wrote:
         >      > Hello,
         >      >
         >      > I manage a project that currently runs on Tomcat 7 but is 
migrating to a new server where Tomcat 8 was installed by the server admin. When I 
navigate to the /var/lib/tomcat8 folder, I don’t see a ./bin folder or any startup.sh 
or similar. Is this something that has changed from Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8, or does 
this imply that it was not installed completely/correctly?
         >      >
         >      What is the platform (OS) of the new server ? (and the old one)
         >      Maybe it was installed using a package provided by the 
platform, in (eminently variable)
         >      other directories.
         >
         >
         >
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