Hi, I am currently trying to restart a new instance of Tomcat 5.5 service and having no luck. Restarting service had previously worked using the /etc/ini.d/tomcat5 start process. But after a reboot was done [Tomcat service was not stopped] it seems that the service will not start up as expected.
Message: "Lock file found but no process running for pid xxx" When I check the /var/lock/subsystem there is a tomcat5 file When I check the var/run there is a tomcat5.pid record there as well. When I stop tomcat they disappear I checked the Catalina.out log file and it shows Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat5 Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp Using JRE_HOME: touch: cannot touch `/usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out': Permission denied /usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 325: /usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out: Permission denied Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat5 Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp Using JRE_HOME: Apr 24, 2009 4:51:39 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina stopServer SEVERE: Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:310) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:176) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:163) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:381) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:537) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:487) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:384) at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:198) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer(Catalina.java:395) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:344) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:435) Not sure what is happening that is not allowing the tomcat service to start correctly or how to fix to get it to do so. Any help would be appreciated. Joe