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Eric,

On 3/10/2011 4:02 PM, Robinson, Eric wrote:
>>> The only filesystem involved is the local ext3 one that 
>> tomcat lives on.
>>> I can stop and start tomcat as many times as I want and 
>> everything is 
>>> fine. But when I reboot the server, the next time tomcat 
>> comes up the 
>>> XML files get deleted. This only happens to the 70 or so 
>> instrances of
>>> tomcat6 running on two separate RHEL 5.3 servers. It does 
>> not happens 
>>> on the 200 instances of tomcat5 running on our other RHEL servers.
>>>
>>
>> I'll bite.
>>
>> How do you stop and start Tomcat(s) when you are not 
>> rebooting the server ?
>>
> 
> We stop and start tomcat using the command 'service tomcat6_XXX stop'
> (or start) where XXX is a 3-digit code for the particular instrance of
> tomcat.

You said you were using an ASF package. Have you rolled your own init.d
scripts? Would you care to share one with us?

>> Obviously, something different is happening in one case or the other.
>> Since the JVM which runs Tomcat, and the Tomcat code itself, 
>> is (presumably) the same in both cases, logic would have it 
>> that the suspect must be outside Tomcat itself.
>>
> 
> I can't disagree with the logic. I'm just having a hard time imagining
> what it would be.

Nonstandard scripts can pretty much do anything, including "rm -rf
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/*/*/*.xml" which would certainly do it ;)

Try using "diff" on the scripts that launches Tomcat5 versus Tomcat6.

- -chris
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