Marc, Take a look at "org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE".
>From the docs... "If true, the server will exit if an exception happens during the server initialization phase. If not specified, the default value of false will be used." https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/systemprops.html Dan On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 08:32 -0800, Marc Limotte wrote: > Hi. > > For reference, my set up is Tomcat 5.5.27, Java 1.6.0_22 , Ubuntu 10.04.3. > > Once in a while when starting Tomcat; ContextInitialization fails for > my app (specifically, Spring DI fails), but the app still comes up in > a broken state. Is there a way to make this a hard fail-- Ideally > tomcat wouldn't start at all and would exit with a non-zero exit code? > > I'm separately investigating why Initialization fails, but at this > time I'm looking for an easier way for our automated tools to know > immediately that there is a problem (regardless of what the problem > is). > > thanks, > Marc > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >