On 10/02/2010 10:39, Jan Van Besien wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> If you redeploy a WAR file while Tomcat is stopped you need to deleted >> the exploded directory as well. > > Ok, thanks for clarifying that for me. > > Can I safely delete the exploded files if tomcat is still running as > well? In that case, I could do it always, without checking if tomcat is > running.
I don't think so. I fairly sure Tomcat will delete the WAR too. Of course, you could just try it an see... Mark > My use case is that we want to install war files packaged as rpms. The > rpm simply puts the war file in the webapps directory, When a new rpm is > installed, the rpm mechanism will remove the old war file and put a new > war file in place, but will not cleanup the exploded directory. I can > change my rpms to delete the exploded directory as well, but it would be > more difficult if I have to add a script to my rpms to check if tomcat > is running or not. > > thanks again, > Jan Van Besien > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
