Hello all, I haven't been able to figure this out - but a catalina.out file is not being generated for me. Sadly - I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue (with a vendor's saml implementation) which wants to write to that file (and doesn't seem to be writing what I need to catalina.YYYY-DD-MM.logs, /var/log/messages, or into the journal as seen by "journalctl --unit=tomcat.service").
My environment: * RHEL 7.9 (though the same happens on my RHEL 8 hosts) * Tomcat 9.0.63 (installed from the .tar.gz download from https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi - not from the OS repository) * Using jsvc via a systemd startup script to start Tomcat (that script is at the bottom of this message). I've tried specifying CATALINA_OUT in setenv.sh, and in my systemd startup script. I've temporarily disabled SELinux to see if that makes a difference. Neither of those work. What does work, though I would like to avoid it, is if I start Tomcat via ./startup.sh. If I do that - catalina.out is generated but I'm not getting other settings I set in my systemd script (or having it tied to startup/shutdown of the OS). I don't know what I'm missing or doing wrong here, or if there's something about jsvc that is an issue here that I can't figure out. I've been unable to find anything related to this (lots of posts about catalina.out related to operating system distributed versions of Tomcat that don't appear to apply). Any advice here would be greatly appreciated! My systemd startup script is below. [Unit] Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/tomcat.pid UMask=0007 # Tomcat variables Environment='JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk' Environment='CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat.pid' Environment='CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat/latest' Environment='CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat/latest' Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx2048M -XX:+UseParallelGC -server' Environment='CATALINA_OUT=/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out' # Needed to make use of Tomcat Native Library Environment='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/tomcat/latest/lib' ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \ -Dcatalina.home=${CATALINA_HOME} \ -Dcatalina.base=${CATALINA_BASE} \ -Djava.awt.headless=true \ -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \ -Djava.util.logging.config.file=${CATALINA_BASE}/conf/logging.properties \ -Dlog4j2.FormatMsgNoLookups=true \ -cp ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/commons-daemon.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/bootstrap.jar:${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar \ -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \ -java-home ${JAVA_HOME} \ -user tomcat \ $CATALINA_OPTS \ org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/latest/bin/jsvc \ -pidfile ${CATALINA_PID} \ -stop \ org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Paul Chauvet, CISSP Information Security Officer State University of New York at New Paltz chauv...@newpaltz.edu
