Tomcat start script / Can't find CATALINA_BASE

03-02-2009, 10:41 AM

Hi,

I have a problem here with running tomcat from the start script in
/etc/init.d. The root-account somehow does not know the CATALINA_BASE
variable i exported in /etc/profile like this:

CATALINA_BASE="/var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf"
export CATALINA_BASE

The normal user knows the path, though:

webuntisuser@webuntis:~$ echo $CATALINA_BASE
/var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf
webuntisuser@webuntis:~$

webuntisuser@webuntis:~$ sudo echo $CATALINA_BASE
/var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf

webuntisuser@webuntis:~$ sudo bash
root@webuntis:~# echo $CATALINA_BASE

root@webuntis:~#

Any idea, what to do?

--Stephan

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03-02-2009, 10:46 AM

Stephan Schöffel schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem here with running tomcat from the start script in
> /etc/init.d. The root-account somehow does not know the CATALINA_BASE
> variable i exported in /etc/profile like this:
>
>
> CATALINA_BASE="/var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf"
> export CATALINA_BASE
>
>
> The normal user knows the path, though:
>
> webuntisuser@webuntis:~$ echo $CATALINA_BASE
> /var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf
> webuntisuser@webuntis:~$
>
> webuntisuser@webuntis:~$ sudo echo $CATALINA_BASE
> /var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf
>
> webuntisuser@webuntis:~$ sudo bash
> root@webuntis:~# echo $CATALINA_BASE
>
> root@webuntis:~#
>
>
> Any idea, what to do?
>
>
> --Stephan
>
>
>
The ../conf version of the path was only a try, but it wont wokr the
other way (ie the path without /conf) either.

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03-02-2009, 11:36 AM

Stephan Schöffel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem here with running tomcat from the start script in
> /etc/init.d. The root-account somehow does not know the CATALINA_BASE
> variable i exported in /etc/profile like this:
>
>
> CATALINA_BASE="/var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf"
> export CATALINA_BASE

/etc/profile is only read by login shells. Put it in /etc/bash.bashrc
(since you're using bash). Also you can do it in one line:

export CATALINA_BASE="/var/apache-tomcat-5.5.27/conf"

Matt Flaschen

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