Bug 206242

Summary:	/usr/bin/dtomcat5 makes it hard to spawn multiple tomcat instances
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1>
Component:	tomcat5	Assignee:	Vivek Lakshmanan <viveklak>
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Description Bryce Nesbitt 2006-09-13 07:13:06 UTC

Issue
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It is pretty common to want to spawn multiple instances of tomcat, one per
virtual server.

fc5 makes doing this uncessarily intrusive onto the system scripts.  A typical
setup elsewhere is to set $CATALINA_HOME=/var/foo/tomcat_instance_X, then call
startup.sh or catalina.sh.

But with fc5 those scripts have been replaced with /usr/bin/dtomcat5, which
hardwires /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf.  While you can set $CATALINA_BASE
externally, there is no clean way to set $CATALINA_HOME without hacking
/usr/bin/dtomcat5.

Proposd Solution
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The config file should be a parameter to /usr/bin/dtomcat5, replacing the
hard-wired TOMCAT_CFG="/etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf".

The procedure to spawn multiple tomcats would then to clone
/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat5, and set the path for each instance.

Comment 1 Bryce Nesbitt 2006-09-13 18:46:00 UTC

Same issue here:
dtomcat5 allows overriding $CATALINA_PID:

if [ -z "$CATALINA_PID" ] ; then
    export CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat5.pid
fi

But the value from /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf always overrides whatever the user
has exported (e.g. export CATALINA_PID=/var/run/tomcat5_a.pid ).

Comment 2 Devrim GUNDUZ 2008-01-05 13:38:16 UTC

I think this is fixed in the current releases. Closing this bug:

if [ -z "$CATALINA_HOME" ]; then
    [ -r "$TOMCAT_CFG" ] && . "${TOMCAT_CFG}"
fi


... etc.