Re: monit unable to start Tomcat

[Martin Pala]

You can try to check the environment variables. Monit starts the program 
with minimized environment.

Martin

Ramesh B wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have a Redhat Linux server running Tomcat(6.0.10). I've configured
> monitoring tomcat using monit (4.9).
>
> Here is the snippet from my monitrc file
>
> # Tomcat
> check process tomcat with pidfile "/var/run/tomcat.pid"
>       start program = "/etc/init.d/tomcat start"
>       stop program  = "/etc/init.d/tomcat stop"
>       if failed port 8080 then alert
>
> When I kill tomcat, monit detects that tomcat is not running and sends me an
> email. However monit is unable to restart tomcat. This is what I see in the
> monit.log file
>
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:35] info     : Starting monit daemon with http interface
> at [*:2813]
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:35] info     : Starting monit HTTP server at [*:2813]
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:35] info     : monit HTTP server started
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:35] info     : Monit started
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:36] error    : 'tomcat' process is not running
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:36] info     : 'tomcat' trying to restart
> [EDT Aug  2 15:41:36] info     : 'tomcat' start: /etc/init.d/tomcat
> [EDT Aug  2 15:42:36] info     : Monit has not changed
> [EDT Aug  2 15:42:36] error    : 'tomcat' process is not running
> [EDT Aug  2 15:42:36] info     : 'tomcat' trying to restart
> [EDT Aug  2 15:42:36] info     : 'tomcat' start: /etc/init.d/tomcat
> [EDT Aug  2 15:42:36] error    : 'tomcat' failed to start
> ...
>
> I'm running monit as "root" and I can successfully run "/etc/init.d/tomcat
> start" to start tomcat.
>
> Any ideas what is going on here...
>
> Thank you
> Ramesh