[chef] RE: Re: RE: Re: tomcat6 start failing; not much info

["Kadel-Garcia, Nico" < >]

Yes, the "tomcat" cookbook does. I referred specifically to the tomdat6 
cookbook, which does not use the RPM  by default, though it pparently has 
hooks to do so. And even if it does use the system RPM, the tomcat6 cookbook  
overwrites the default init script with its own, which I consider problematic 
for the reasons listed below.
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From: Julian C. Dunn 

 
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Subject: [chef] Re: RE: Re: tomcat6 start failing; not much info

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Kadel-Garcia, Nico
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 wrote:
> I'm afraid that the built-in tomcat6 init script isn't very good. It uses
> several different techniques in different parts of the script to detect if
> there is a running tomcat6, it has the root user create a
> /var/run/tomcat6.pid file owned by the tomcat6 user but leaves it empty,
> because only the tomcat6  daemon knows that its pid is, and if the "stop"
> command sent to the tomcat6 user as an "su" command does not succeed it does
> not go back and make sure that the daemon is dead. So the several tomcat6
> "start" and "stop" steps in a row as a configuration is modified by chef can
> interfere with each other, because by the time the tomcat6 init script has
> completed, it's not *really* up and running and has left in place the empty,
> root generated pid file and not populated it yet.
>
> Hilarity then ensues.
>
> This is one of the reasons I dislike the tomcat6 cookbook, and in general
> dislike and building software packages from source tarballs: the RPM or apt
> bundled tomcat packages are, generally, much better about this sort of
> thing.

AFAIK, the opscode tomcat cookbook uses the vendor packages (Debian/Ubuntu's).

- Julian

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