Tomcat on OpenSuSE11.1 - not complete?

Not sure what the Tomcat install from the SuSE repo does, and what still
needs to be done manually.

SuSE 11.1, fully patched
From the repo, the following modules were installed with their
dependencies

Tomcat6
Tomcat6-webapps
Tomcat6-admin-webapps

Also, default Java modules are installed plus the devel module for
openjdk1.6.

From another thread, I thought that maybe $CATALINA_HOME would be set
to some default value? But, from a console no value is returned for
$CATALINA_HOME.

Also, in the YAST System Runlevel applet, although autostart can be
enabled and manually starting says is successful, the Tomcat does not
autostart on bootup (no error I can find).

Any thoughts? Am stumped.


tsu2

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Bump.

Has anyone installed/deployed Tomcat6 from the OpenSuSE11.1
repositories successfully?

TIA.


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A closing note (for now),

Since no one has responded and after further searching existing Forum
posts to this date, I wonder if there are fundamental longstanding
unaddressed issues with Tomcat6 on OpenSuSE.

Based on this post ‘Tomcat webserver…’ (http://tinyurl.com/8orm8n)

I will likely try Tomcat5.x on 11.1 next, and if that doesn’t work try
to replicate the referenced post and install Tomcat5.x on OpenSuSE
11.0.

HTH someone else…


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I have experienced the same problems - I have installed Tomcat 6 in the
usual way on OpenSuSE 11.1 and get “process dead” status. (AMD 2500; 2
Gig memory and very large HDD).

I have installed Tomcat (5.x etc.) on previous versions of SuSE over
many years and have got everything working within 5 mins.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Darren


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It seems that the tomcat6 startup script is broken, in that it blindly
overwrites the setting of JAVA_HOME environment variable from
/etc/tomcat6/tomcat6 with one in /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6 (which is by
default blank - note the misleading comment in /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6)

To make tomcat6 start normally, edit /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6 and
replace

JAVA_HOME=""

with

JAVA_HOME="/etc/alternatives/jre"

Aleksandar


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