Worked like a treat!!!

If you install from the ZIP rather than the tar.gz uniz file permissions are lost. The chances are that startup.sh is missing the execute permission. The first thing I’d try would be to execute the following as root to give execute permission on all shell scripts in the bin folder:

chmod 755 /usr/local/tomcat/bin/*.sh

Firstly thanks for this tutorial it’s nice and easy to follow. I’m a bit of a novice and I get this issue once I’ve followed steps 1 – 3. I dont want to go any further until I’ve got the basics right.

The file startup.sh is for sure there and I dont understand what I’m doing wrong

Last login: Sat May 5 10:44:35 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
PowerMac-1:~ andrewthomas$ sudo bash
PowerMac-1:~ root# sudo /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
sudo: /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh: command not found
PowerMac-1:~ root#

Thanks

Andy

1) the command in the startupitems/tomcat/tomcat file needs to be:

sudo -u tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

not

su tomcat – /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

The latter gave me “incorrect permissions” error on startup (su requires that you enter the users password, even if you are root, sudo does not.

Also in the same file it should have a structure which is pretty standard for services, and also causes an automatic restart of the service if it crashes.

The one as shown will work fine, but I am suggesting this:

after the three export commands in place of:

if [ "${TOMCAT}" = "-YES-" ]; then
ConsoleMessage “Starting Tomcat”
su tomcat – /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
fi

use:

StartService ()
{

if [ "${TOMCAT}" = "-YES-" ]; then
ConsoleMessage “Starting Tomcat”
sudo -u tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
fi

}

StopService ()
{
ConsoleMessage “Stopping Tomcat”
sudo -u tomcat /library/usr/local/bin/shutdown.sh
}

RestartService ()
{
StopService
StartService
}

RunService “$1″

Thanks! I didn’t see anything that was version-specific for Tomcat, but I thought I should ask anyway.

I’ll be adding this in the next few days, so I’ll let you (and anyone reading!) know how it goes.

Thanks for the great info!

–Jeff

I’m sorry to say I have no experience at all with Tomcat 6. However, these instructions were basically sound for Tomcat 4 so there’s a good chance they’ll work for 6.

As for tomcatCtrl.pl, that’s purely for convenience. I generally use these instructions on development machines so I’m constantly starting and stopping Tomcat.

I’d love to hear how you get on with these instruction on Tomcat 6.