Hello,
If your servlet(s) start new threads that run independently of request this may happen. Could this be the case? On Wed, October 18, 2006 01:42, Elaine TING wrote: > Hi, > > This is what I have done: > > 1) use shutdown.sh to shut down tomcat > 2) Now the website appears to be down > 3) Use ps -ef | grep tomcat to check the processes, tomcat still appears > to be running: >> ps -ef | grep tomcat > root 21892 1 1 14:30 pts/21 00:00:17 /local/Java/bin/java > -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/jakarta-tomcat/common/endorsed -classpath > /local/Java/lib/tools.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/jak > arta-tomcat/bin/commons-logging-api.jar > -Dcatalina.base=/opt/jakarta-tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/opt/jakarta-tomcat > -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/jakarta-tomcat/temp > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start > 4) use startup.sh to start tomcat > 5) website appears to be up and running again > 6) check the processes, now there are 2 tomcats running: > >> ps -ef | grep tomcat > root 21892 1 1 14:30 pts/21 00:00:17 /local/Java/bin/java > -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/jakarta-tomcat/common/endorsed -classpath > /local/Java/lib/tools.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/jak > arta-tomcat/bin/commons-logging-api.jar > -Dcatalina.base=/opt/jakarta-tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/opt/jakarta-tomcat > -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/jakarta-tomcat/temp > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start > root 22108 1 1 14:33 pts/21 00:00:19 /local/Java/bin/java > -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/opt/jakarta-tomcat/common/endorsed -classpath > /local/Java/lib/tools.jar:/opt/jakarta-tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/jak > arta-tomcat/bin/commons-logging-api.jar > -Dcatalina.base=/opt/jakarta-tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/opt/jakarta-tomcat > -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/jakarta-tomcat/temp > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start > ops 22427 10618 0 14:52 pts/21 00:00:00 grep tomcat > > Why was shutdown.sh unable to kill the tomcat process? I'm running > Tomcat 5.0.28 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. Java version: 1.5.0_03. > > Thank you in advance, > Elaine > > -- /jørgen nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +45 2627 3769 http://anneli.dk/~jnp/ |\ _,,,---,,_ /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]