Tuesday, August 01, 2006


Running TomCat 5.5 as Linux Daemon



Perform standard Tomat 5.5.X server install by account "tomcat".
Compile as officially advised in [1] $CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc binary :- 



    cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
    tar xvfz jsvc.tar.gz
    cd jsvc-src
    autoconf
    ./configure
    make
    cp jsvc ..
    cd ..



To be succeed starting up TomCat's jsvc daemon with JDK 1.5
create as root script "/etc/init.d/TomCatJsvc",
compare it with daemon startup script suggested in [1]:-



JAVA_HOME='/home/tomcat/jdk1.5.0_06'
CATALINA_HOME='/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.16'
CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
TMPDIR=/var/tmp


RC=0

case "$1" in

  start)

   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc        -user $TOMCAT_USER      -home $JAVA_HOME        -Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME      -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMPDIR      -Djava.awt.headless=true      -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out      -errfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.err      -cp $CLASSPATH       org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

    RC=$?

    [ $RC = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/tomcat
    ;;

  stop)

    PID=`cat /var/run/jsvc.pid`
    kill $PID
 
   RC=$?

    [ $RC = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/jsvc.pid
    ;;

  *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
        exit 1
esac
exit $RC



Then run as root:-



# /etc/init.d/TomCatJsvc start



If "ps -ef|grep tomcat" output looks like:-




and $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out:-





then you should be fine with launching browser to http://localhost:8080.

For automatic startup/shutdown TomCat's daemon create 3 symbolic links:-



# ln -s /etc/init.d/TomCatJsvc /etc/rc5.d/S99TomCatJsvc
# ln -s /etc/init.d/TomCatJsvc /etc/rc0.d/K09TomCatJsvc
# ln -s /etc/init.d/TomCatJsvc /etc/rc6.d/K09TomCatJsvc



References

1.http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html


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