Redhat 9: Where find errors generated from rc.local ?
 

Hello,

I have a problem,

in my boot script rc.local I start my Tomcat service.
In my /etc/profile I set my JAVA_HOME to my jdk dir.

But the tomcat won´t start, and I´m not able to see the errors generated, since the login screen appears just after 1 sec.

My thought is that the JAVA_HOME variable hasnt been set yet, when the rc.local script runs.

Anyone has a solution to this?

Where can I see the errors generated so that I can verify that this is the problem?

dmesg might or just check your /var/log/messages file

No, nothing is visible in /var/log/messages or dmesg

messages on shows that some other programs has been started...

Does it actually start if you do it manually from the CLI, etc?

Yes, it does.

As I wrote, a possible reason is that the operating system hasn´t ranned the /etc/profile script yet when it runs the rc.local, which means that when Tomcat tries to start, it cant find its JAVA_HOME variable. That is just a guess from me.

So if I start Tomcat manually after bootup, or try to run the startscript, it does start normally without errors.