Permissions of /var/log/tomcat look fine: drwxrwx---. 2 tomcat root 4096 Jul 1 08:34 tomcat
And it is creating the logs, they are just empty: -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 0 Jul 1 08:34 catalina.2020-07-01.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 0 Jul 1 08:34 host-manager.2020-07-01.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 0 Jul 1 08:34 localhost.2020-07-01.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 0 Jul 1 08:34 manager.2020-07-01.log /var/log/messages shows: Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main systemd: Started Apache Tomcat Web Application Container. Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main server: Java virtual machine used: /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin/java Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main server: classpath used: /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar:/usr/share/java/commons-daemon.jar Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main server: main class used: org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main server: flags used: Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main server: options used: -Dcatalina.base=/usr/share/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/cache/tomcat/temp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager Jul 1 09:31:03 ecom-main server: arguments used: start On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM calder <calder....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2020, 11:15 Sean Neeley <sean.nee...@producepro.com> wrote: > > > I just installed tomcat 7 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.8, power > > pc system. As soon as the service starts, the java process uses 100% > cpu. > > Logs get created in /var/log/tomcat, but they all have size 0 bytes. I > > have not modified the standard configuration (tomcat.conf, server.xml, > > etc). The tomcat packages that are installed are: > > > > tomcat-7.0.76-12.el7_8.noarch > > tomcat-jsp-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_8.noarch > > tomcat-el-2.2-api-7.0.76-12.el7_8.noarch > > tomcat-lib-7.0.76-12.el7_8.noarch > > tomcat-servlet-3.0-api-7.0.76-12.el7_8.noarch > > > > Are there any tricks I can use to troubleshoot what is going wrong? > > > Check "syslog" for clues. > > Also, double-check the permissions for /var/log/tomcat. >