This only happens when shell expansion is used in tomcat.conf. To reproduce: 1) Add some shell expansion to tomcat*.conf $ echo "JAVA_OPTS=\"${JAVA_OPTS} -Xms1m\"" >> /etc/tomcat/tomcat.conf 2) Start tomcat and verify that there's only one instance of the Xms argument $ service tomcat8 start $ ps aux | grep tomcat | grep -o \\-Xms1m -Xms1m 3) Restart tomcat to duplicate the JAVA_OPTS $ service tomcat8 restart 4) Verify that there are multiple Xms args with ps $ ps aux | grep tomcat | grep -o \\-Xms1m -Xms1m -Xms1m This is because when using restart the stop and start are called in the same script and the parseOptions reads the configuration files twice instead of once to just start/stop the service.
Typo in the description: s/tomcat8/tomcat/
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tomcat/c/5ac49193adab92efc08c3c94c3e6bd483ce7d0f1?branch=el6
FEDORA-EPEL-2019-31adca066b has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-31adca066b
tomcat-7.0.96-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-31adca066b
tomcat-7.0.96-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.