> Is it Debian specific to depend on jsvc to start tomcat? It's actually the method recommended by upstream: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html
It's true that it requires a native app (not a library), but it seems to be an improvement over the previous method. For instance we get a clean shutdown procedure, which signals Tomcat to stop cleanly. If you kill the jsvc process, it will let Tomcat do its clean-up before terminating. The previous solution in catalina.sh appears to be fundamentally broken - it spawns a new JVM and launches "catalina.startup.Bootstrap stop" which is ineffective, so the init script times out after a while and kills the original process. (At least when I tested it - do you have a different experience?) I've made sure that jsvc is updated and builds on all architectures with proper Java support: http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=commons-daemon So I suggest we let people test the jsvc method and see what happens. (It's not considered for etch.) Comments welcome of course. Marcus
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