I tried your script both ways and it worked flawlessly on a CentOS 3.6 box.
I would take a look under which user the jvm is running after you start your script. (ps -ef | grep java) If it is running as root then that might indicate that something about the su command isn't working as expected. It also might be that you once ran the jvm as root and it isn't your startup script at all but the fact that the log files were once created with root ownership. Thus, subsequent tomcat invocations fail to write to existing logs due to invalid permissions. Have you tried removing the logs and running your startup script again? Also, in my experience it would be better to add more checking to see that the java vm has truly stopped in the restart logic. Java has to unload everything at stop time and 10 seconds is not always enough. The default shutdown.sh script will exit with a normal return code even if the jvm is still running. So, a good number of times, the listening ports will still be in use when the start command is executed throwing lots of nasty exceptions. You could modify startup.sh so that it doesn't exit until the jvm is stopped, or modify your 'sleep' statement such that it has process checking logic that waits for some period of time for the jvm to exit and if it fails kill it. The latter is more desirable since you will probably upgrade tomcat at some point and do not want to risk losing your changes or having to adapt them as the startup and shutdown scripts change over time. -----Original Message----- From: Tejas Dhedia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:00 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Tomcat logging problem Hi, I am running tomcat 5.5.17 under opensuse 10.1 and my JVM version is 1.5.0_06. I am running my tomcat as a seperate tomcat user and starting it at boot time using the following script in /etc/init.d. #!/bin/sh # # Startup script for Tomcat JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java export JAVA_HOME start_tomcat=/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh stop_tomcat=/home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/shutdown.sh start() { echo -n "Starting tomcat: " su -c ${start_tomcat} - tomcat echo "done." } stop() { echo -n "Shutting down tomcat: " ${stop_tomcat} echo "done." } # See how we were called case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) stop sleep 10 start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac I get following error output in my catalina.out file java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4 java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 /logs/localhost.2006-10-02.log (Permission denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:102) at java.io.FileWriter.<init>(FileWriter.java:61) at org.apache.juli.FileHandler.open(FileHandler.java:256) at org.apache.juli.FileHandler.<init>(FileHandler.java:50) ........ java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4 java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17 /logs/admin.2006-10-02.log (Permission denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) ................. java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4 java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/logs/host- manager.2006-10-02.log (Permission denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method) ................ As a result nothing is being logged. On checking I found that the log files were being created with owner as root instead of tomcat. Can someone please help me find where am i going wrong. Thanks Tejas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
