We're looking into the possibility of improving the Bootstrap/Catalina startup/shutdown that is currently used to start/stop tomcat in the JPackage RPM distribution for Tomcat 4.l.*.
What are the chances that a "status" command could be added to the Bootstrap/Catalina 4.1.* classes? This would allow us to check the status of tomcat while shutting down in the shutdown scripts. For scripts that start/stop/restart tomcat as an init.d service (Redhat), the script would then be more capabile of waiting for tomcat to shut completely down before restarting becuase it wait until the status changed.
As it is now, when lots of things happen on shutdown, using a shell script "sleep" command to wait for shutdown before 'restarting' causes the startup to start before the shutdown has fully completed. Having a status command would give script developers better control over when tomcat has really completely shutdown. Administrators wouldn't have to go in and muck around with the scripts sleep time when their webapps/connectors require more time to shutdown.
Thanks, -Mark Diggory HMDC
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