Your assignment to JAVA_OPTS seems to consist of multiple lines. You
need to end all apart from the last with a backslash "\", so that the
shell executing the script understands, that the following lines still
contain content for the variable.
The error doesn't say, that it can't file a config
We use Tomcat 5.5.23 on all platforms (Solaris, Linux and Win XP).
On Solaris, I see the following message when Tomcat is shutdown.
./shutdown.sh:
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/export/home/lakshmi/Tomcat/conf/logging
.properties: not found
Here is an excerpt from the shutdown script:
-