Tomcat 4 Won't Start after Installing a New Package
Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
By Eric Champagne
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Posted: 6 Apr 2006 |
PROBLEM:
Tomcat 4 won't start anymore after installing a new package (ex : MySQL) and after the server is rebooted.
iManager and Virtual Offices don't work anymore.
SOLUTION:
Step by Step:
- cd /var/opt/novell/tomcat4/common/lib
- ls -la and than verify if all the JAR files have for group NOVLWWW and for owner WWW.
If you see one or many JAR files with a different group than NOVLWWW or a owner different than WWW you need to change it. - To change the group
chgrp novlwww xxxxxxxxxx.jar - To change the owner
chown www xxxxxxxxxx.jar - To change the rights
chmod 644 xxxxxxxx.jar - Restart Tomcat 4
/etc/init.d/novell-tomcat4 restart
Path to logs for Tomcat4 :
/var/opt/novell/tomcat4/logs/
EXAMPLE:
Example of a JAR without good assignment. mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar have root for group and root for owner. That's why Tomcat 4 won't start properly and gives a JAVA.EXCEPTION.XXX error.
-rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 54829 Sep 25 2004 activation.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 8412 Sep 25 2004 ant-launcher.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 958858 Sep 25 2004 ant.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 165119 Sep 25 2004 commons-collections.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 100776 Sep 25 2004 commons-dbcp-1.1.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 22327 Sep 25 2004 commons-logging-api.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 39523 Sep 25 2004 commons-pool-1.1.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 181624 Sep 25 2004 jasper-compiler.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 72417 Sep 25 2004 jasper-runtime.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 6727 Sep 25 2004 jdbc2_0-stdext.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 98496 Sep 25 2004 jndi.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 8639 Sep 25 2004 jta.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 novlwww www 327603 Sep 25 2004 mail.jar -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 446464 Mar 16 12:48 mysql-connector-java-3.1.12-bin.jar
ENVIRONMENT:
OES Linux SP2 - Tomcat 4 - iManager 2.5 - Virtual Office
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