Suggestions - TC4 shutdown and restart

[Johan Ekenberg <jo...@ekenberg.se>]

Hi!

When trying out different setups with Tomcat 4 there's a repeated need to
restart it. As far as I understand there is no "restart.sh" command. Why?

After running shutdown.sh there's a period of about 10-15 seconds before
Tomcat
actually stops. If startup.sh is run before that, it results in errors and
strange behaviour (because of already bound ports I guess).

Suggestions:
	- Write a restart.sh script. Something better than "shutdown.sh; sleep 15;
startup.sh". 15 seconds is a long time when Apache can restart in one
second. Best would of course be to implement a restart function in TC
itself, something to reopen all logs and reread all configuration files.
More or less what sending a SIGHUP does to many servers.
	- If possible, make the shutdown process quicker.
	- Let shutdown.sh hang (wait) until TC actually quits running, this at
least prevents the user from trying to start it again before it's completely
dead, thereby causing strange errors.

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Best regards,
/Johan Ekenberg


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