Hi,

I am trying to startup tomcat automatically by placing in my rc.local but it is not running.

I have tried the following to no avail.

./var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/startup.sh
/var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/./startup.sh


Any ideas folks?



G

try


sh /var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/startup.sh

hi

could u post up ur script here which u put in rc.local
also is ur script executable

regards
gaurav

Hi Guys,

Here you go, the cat is not purring yet


Ta


G

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

#echo "Starting up Tomcat"
#/var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/./startup.sh
sh /var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/startup.sh

(it will run either of these commands fine if I type it in manually?)

Do you happen to have all of your environment variables set like JAVA_HOME? You'll need to set them in your script.

Hi stickman

Yeah I have all the exports set once the Server boots up I can run

/var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/./startup.sh

And tomcat starts up fine, it just wont start automatically form rc.local very strange?

I have inserted a line
touch /var/www/testing123 and it did create my testing123 file so it is running

can I put a pause in this script so I can see what is happening on boot?

Thanks for you help

G

hi

is ur script executable

see the attributes asociated with it
with
ls -la

see if it has 'x' attribute

regards
gaurav

try this and see if you get any errors....

sh /var/www/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.27/bin/startup.sh > /root/tomcatoutput.txt

This will put the output into the tomcatoutput.txt file..you can look at it after you boot....

Yes, I realize that you can run them manually after the server is started, but do you have JAVA_HOME defined in the scripts? rc.local doesn't know anything about your login environment and what variables are set, and the default startup.sh makes guesses about where java is. Your script is running, but it's probably dying because it needs a full path to something (probably java). Put something like the following in your startup.sh:
echo $JAVA_HOME
which java

When you restart your system, you should see the JAVA_HOME and the java path scroll by.

how would i make a program auto start in x-windows?

thanks...

when do u want to start the program automatically in X windows
pls elaborate

regards

after X-windows has stopped loading what ever it loads by default...