I've installed tomcat 7 on my machine to take a quick look at how it's packaged:
- exploded FHS-compliant layout
- systemd-friendly equivalent to catalina.sh
- default configuration in /etc
Now if you want to run a tomcat instance (by instance I mean
$CATALINA_BASE) /usr/sbin/tomcat seems to be the best candidate.
Unlike catalina.sh, it expects a value for all the CATALINA_* variables
in its environment, while catalina.sh has fall-backs relative to
$CATALINA_HOME. Simply using /usr/sbin/tomcat as a substitute to
catalina.sh wouldn't work of course.
Could you please post an example of what maven produces ? This would
help see what could be done with simple maven configuration (eg.
-Dsystem=properties) and what would require a patch (and help estimate
the amount of work).
Dridi
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Robert Rati <rrati(a)redhat.com> wrote:
The lack of the tomcat shell scripts is causing issue with hadoop and
some
of their ecosystem packages. Some are webapps with custom configuration.
The maven builds all create a tomcat install area with their custom
configurations. It's not too hard to take that and adapt to fedora's tomcat
if the schell scripts were packaged. Then these services could be
stopped/started with systemd like other services.
That's assuming catalina.sh and friends are present and functional. :)
Rob
On 10/21/2013 04:42 PM, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The catalina.sh script work with the $CATALINA_HOME (tomcat binaries)
> and $CATALINA_BASE (tomcat instances) directories. My guess is that
> tomcat is packaged as a native (previously sysvinit, and now systemd)
> service, and that instances wouldn't make sense. Other scripts like
> startup.sh are just sugar wrappers to the catalina.sh script.
>
> When I say it wouldn't make sense, I mean that it was probably
> packaged to feel like any other server:
> sudo service tomcat start
> or
> sudo systemctl start tomcat
>
> The package probably owns directories in /var (or somewhere else) that
> would make it multi-instance unfriendly.
>
> The catalina.sh script also expects sub-directories in $CATALINA_HOME
> and $CATALINA_BASE. I suspect that tomcat explodes the directory
> layout (in /usr, /var, maybe /etc) in order to be FHS compliant, which
> would probably break catalina.sh and its friends.
>
> I'll install tomcat and take a look at the package ASAP.
>
> Dridi
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Robert Rati <rrati(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I logged a bz (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990588) to
>> request that the tomcat shell scripts (catalina.sh and the rest) be
>> packaged. I've had some discussions with the person the bz is assigned
>> to
>> and few others, but no one knows why the scripts were not packaged. Nor,
>> it
>> seems, does anyone see a problem with them being packaged as far as I can
>> tell.
>>
>> Does anyone know some history here?
>>
>> Rob
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