init.d Tomcat5 file modifications

[rw...@mchsi.com]

Hi all,
  I am a newbie (really new) to the world of java, tomcat, etc.  I have a
medical program for teaching cases called MIRC installed on Tomcat5.5 and
Java1.5.0_06.  I installed Tomcat5.5 and the Sun JDK as they are required for
the application and I could not figure out all the references in the standard
FC4 packages.  The program works as it is supposed to and the machine is a
single purpose single processor unit.

  My problem is to make it function under /etc/init.d so it will start
automagically whenever the machine reboots [should be rare, of course!].  I have
compiled jsvc and copied the Tomcat5.sh file into /etc/init.d. My problem is
with the editing of this file.

Setup:
  Tomcat installed on:  /mirc/tomcat5  and this is CATALINA_HOME
  Java installed on:    /usr/share/jdk1.5.0_06 and JAVA_HOME defined in
                        /etc/profile
  DAEMON_HOME:      /mirc/tomcat5/bin  //I'm not sure if this is correct but
                       I think it is referring to jsvc
  tomcat5 user is present on the system

under the section of Tomcat5 labeled "#for multi instances adapt these lines" I
would leave
   TMP_DIR=/var/tmp              alone
   PID_FILE=/var/run/jsvc.pid    alone
   CATALINA_BASE=/home/tomcat5/tomcat5/jakarta-tomcat5/build    ??
              How does CATALINA-BASE differ from CATALINA_HOME??
              Can I just comment it out?
  
CATALINA_OPTS='-Djava.library.path=/home/jfclere/jakarta/tomcat-connectors/jni/n
ative/.libs"
CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME=/lib/tools.jar:\      
             This conficts with /etc/profile.  I think it can be commented out.
$CATALINA_HOME=/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME=/bin/bootstrap.jar
             These two lines can probably be excluded as they contradict
             what is exported from Tomcat5 when it starts up.

then in the '  case "$1" in
   ...I can comment out lines referring to any possibly unnecessary lines such
as $CATALINA_BASE 

To those of you experienced Java users this may seem very stupid, but I am
having a heck of a time getting a handle on all the pieces and parts that need
to go together and am not making much headway looking all the disparate parts 
up.

Thanks for any guidance!

Bob Hartung
  

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Re: init.d Tomcat5 file modifications

[Glen Mazza <gr...@verizon.net>]

rwhart@mchsi.com wrote:

>   My problem is to make it function under /etc/init.d so it will start
> automagically whenever the machine reboots [should be rare, of course!].  I have
> compiled jsvc and copied the Tomcat5.sh file into /etc/init.d. My problem is
> with the editing of this file.
> 

Possibly these links may help somewhat:

http://www.raibledesigns.com/tomcat/boot-howto.html
http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=setting_up_cvs_appfuse_jspwiki

I gleaned information from these two to setup Tomcat on my linux 
machine, although I suspect there are much better links available for 
what you need.

Glen

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