I am trying to start Tomcat in Fedora 16. For some reason, the catalina.sh script is not taking any arguments as a result of which the script always ends up printing the usage clause:
[demo@localhost bin]$ ./catalina.sh run
Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/demo/tomcat-asm
Using CATALINA_HOME: /home/demo/tomcat-asm
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/demo/tomcat-asm/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /opt/java/jdk1.7.0_45/bin/java
Using CLASSPATH: /home/demo/tomcat-asm/bin/bootstrap.jar:/home/demo/tomcat-asm/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Usage: catalina.sh ( commands ... )
commands:
debug Start Catalina in a debugger
debug -security Debug Catalina with a security manager
jpda start Start Catalina under JPDA debugger
run Start Catalina in the current window
run -security Start in the current window with security manager
start Start Catalina in a separate window
start -security Start in a separate window with security manager
stop Stop Catalina, waiting up to 5 seconds for the process to end
stop n Stop Catalina, waiting up to n seconds for the process to end
stop -force Stop Catalina, wait up to 5 seconds and then use kill -KILL if still running
stop n -force Stop Catalina, wait up to n seconds and then use kill -KILL if still running
configtest Run a basic syntax check on server.xml - check exit code for result
version What version of tomcat are you running?
Note: Waiting for the process to end and use of the -force option require that $CATALINA_PID is defined
I tried using catalina.sh and startup.sh but both lead to the same effect. I checked that all the .sh files have x permissions:
[demo@localhost bin]$ ls -lah
total 740K
drwxrwxr-x. 2 demo demo 4.0K Dec 11 07:23 .
drwxrwxr-x. 11 demo demo 4.0K Dec 11 07:08 ..
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 28K Jul 2 02:59 bootstrap.jar
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 14K Sep 11 07:25 catalina.bat
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 14K Sep 5 13:35 catalina.bat~
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 20K Dec 11 07:11 catalina.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 20K Dec 11 07:11 catalina.sh~
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 2.2K Jul 2 02:59 catalina-tasks.xml
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 24K Jul 2 02:59 commons-daemon.jar
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 201K Jul 2 02:59 commons-daemon-native.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 2.1K Jul 2 02:59 configtest.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 2.0K Jul 2 02:59 configtest.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 1.4K Jul 2 02:59 cpappend.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 7.4K Jul 2 02:59 daemon.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 2.2K Jul 2 02:59 digest.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 2.0K Jul 2 02:59 digest.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 3.2K Jul 2 02:59 setclasspath.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 3.5K Jul 2 02:59 setclasspath.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 2.1K Jul 2 02:59 shutdown.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 2.0K Jul 2 02:59 shutdown.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 2.1K Jul 2 02:59 startup.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 2.0K Jul 2 02:59 startup.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 38K Jul 2 02:59 tomcat-juli.jar
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 282K Jul 2 02:59 tomcat-native.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 4.1K Jul 2 02:59 tool-wrapper.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 5.0K Jul 2 02:59 tool-wrapper.sh
-rw-rw-r--. 1 demo demo 2.1K Jul 2 02:59 version.bat
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 demo demo 2.0K Jul 2 02:59 version.sh
[demo@localhost bin]$
So what can be the problem here? Is it possible that for some odd reason, the script is not taking in my arguments?
Stupid as this might be, the reason was that I was using Windows-like variable definitions in the script:
set JAVA_OPTS=...
instead of
export JAVA_OPTS=...
It's unfortunate that there are no indications why the script fails. So if this ever happens to you, double-check your start scripts for syntax errors.