Re: monit with tomcat, PID problem

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

"Ugo Bellavance" <address@hidden> writes:

>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : Jan-Henrik Haukeland [mailto:address@hidden
>>Envoyé : 30 avril, 2004 15:30
>>À : This is the general mailing list for monit
>>Objet : Re: monit with tomcat, PID problem
>>
>>The default tomcat startup.sh script *does* in fact put itself in the
>>background. So I'm curios, how is the pid file for tomcat created and
>>do you use the default tomcate startup.sh script?
>
> Yes I do.  However, if I remove the '&' in the catalina.sh script
> and then I execute the startup.sh or catalina.sh script, I don't get
> my prompt back... Am I missing something here?

This is exactly what should happen[1], if you do this and use
startup.sh from monit you should get the correct pid in the pid
file. Right?

[1] The reason you do not get your prompt back is that the script does
an exec and replace the shell (see man exec).

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland