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From: "George Sexton" <georges@mhsoftware.com>
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Subject: RE: tomcat won't start via remote ssh command
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:01:30 -0700
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You can troubleshoot scripts by adding -x to the first line.

For example, the first line in unix shell scripts is usually:

#/bin/sh

Change that to 

#/bin/sh -x

That turns on echo so you can see each statement executed.

You may have to edit multiple scripts if one calls another.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
303 438-9585
www.mhsoftware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james [mailto:james@wintercastle.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:35 PM
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: tomcat won't start via remote ssh command
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I created a simple (i thought) script to restart a tomcat server when
> our
> alerting system sees the site as down (almost always a memory issue
> that a
> reboot of the tomcat server fixes).
> 
> The script runs and works fine when executed as the user on the local
> server. When run via ssh, it will shut down the tomcat server, and
> appear
> to start it -- but does not. I'm not a tomcat expert at all and I
> haven't
> been able to figure out how to get more information. I'm guessing that
> there is some environment information that is missing over the ssh
> terminal
> that is causing it not to start, but I don't have any hints and the
> output
> is the same as when it works.
> 
> The SSH command I run that doesn't work is below. Since even this
> command
> does not work, I won't bother complicating the issue with the details
> of my
> script:
> 
> $ ssh -t -p 222 user@tomcatserver.domain.com
> '/usr/local/sites/domain.com/domain-tomcat1-
> production/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
> '
> Using CATALINA_BASE:
> /usr/local/sites/domain.com/domain-tomcat1-production/tomcat
> Using CATALINA_HOME:
> /usr/local/sites/domain.com/domain-tomcat1-production/tomcat
> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR:
> /usr/local/sites/domain.com/domain-tomcat1-production/tomcat/temp
> Using JRE_HOME:       /usr
> Connection to tomcatserver.domain.com closed.
> 
> Any help would be very much appreciated if you have experience with
> this.
> James
> 


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