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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:46:24 +0200
From: Stefan Mayr <stefan@mayr-stefan.de>
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Subject: Re: Issue with sudo + init script
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Am 01.08.2012 19:10, schrieb Shaw, Ray V CTR (US):
> I'm starting up Tomcat 7.0 on RHEL6 with the following init script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # chkconfig: 235 80 20
> # description: Takes care of starting and stopping Tomcat.
>
> CATALINA_HOME="/opt/tomcat7"
> export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk6-64/"
>
> case "$1" in
>          'start')
>                  /bin/su tomcat -c "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh -security"
>                  ;;
>          'stop')
>                  /bin/su tomcat -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
>                  ;;
>          *)
>                  echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}"
>                  ;;
> esac
>
> If I use sudo -s (or -i) to get a root shell, I can use this script to start and stop Tomcat.
>
> If I invoke this script directly via sudo, i.e. "sudo /sbin/service tomcat7 stop", stopping Tomcat works.  Starting does not; Tomcat gives the usual output to the terminal, creates or touches catalina.out (but writes nothing to it), and then instantly exits.  This is a problem, because I need to allow the Web admin to start/stop Tomcat without giving them everything.
>
> Has anyone seen anything similar to this before?  /var/log/secure isn't showing anything out of the ordinary (and obviously, the commands are being run).
>

Could you post your tomcat output when you try to start it? You should 
also check differences in your environment variables when using 
different methods.

- Stefan


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