FW: Quesion on starting tomcat (as a windows service) from Ant

["Asensio, Rodrigo" <ro...@gilbarco.com>]

Obviously you should try to figure out who is using that file.
But if you want to do it like old days.. Do this in your ANT

    <property name="service" value="Tomcat5"/>

    <target name="stop" description="Stops the ${service}">
        <exec executable="cmd.exe">
            <arg line="/C net stop ${service}"/>
        </exec>
    </target>

    <target name="start" description="Starts the ${service}">
        <exec executable="cmd.exe">
            <arg line="/C net start ${service}"/>
        </exec>
    </target> 

If is linux you will do a service start tomcatd or service stop tomcatd

regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Lenny Wintfeld [mailto:lenny@cecilrep.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:16 PM
To: Asensio, Rodrigo
Subject: RE: Quesion on starting tomcat (as a windows service) from Ant

Rodrigo

Thanks for the feedback. As it works out, when I drop the war into
....\webapps, tomcat partially deletes the previous version in the
directory below webapps and then can't proceed. The problem is
log4j.properties is being used by another (at this point unknown) app
(definitely not one of mine). The end result is Tomcat remains running
with a partially deleted web app and no way to deploy that app. The only
way to fix the problem is to stop tomcat delete the offending web app's
directory tree and restart tomcat.

The windows services version of tomcat is controlled by Procrun whic is
not usable by Ant; forcing me to use a manual process. If you know how
to stop the WinXP Services version of tomcat from a command prompt, I'd
appreciate hearing about it.

I realize that in the liong run the best thing to do is to find out what
other program is holding a reference to log4j.properties, but that will
be a difficult job, since other than tomcat and procrun no other java
programs are running, as far as I can tell.

Thanks and please reply if you have any additional advice.

Lenny Wintfeld


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