Mdthbs

I want to install tomcat 8 and run it at startup time

I am following these tutorials:

1. Install Tomcat 7 on CentOS, RHEL, or Fedora


2. How to install Tomcat 8 on a CentOS 6 VPS

I created the tomcat user:

# useradd -U -r -M -d /usr/local/ServerWeb/tomcat -s /sbin/nologin tomcat

The file was in /etc/init.d/tomcat

In the option 1:

#!/bin/bash  

# description: Tomcat Start Stop Restart  

# processname: tomcat  

# chkconfig: 234 20 80  

JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk

export JAVA_HOME

PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

export PATH

TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat

TOMCAT_USER=tomcat



case $1 in  

start)  

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh  

;;   

stop)     

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  

;;   

restart)  

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh  

;;   

esac      

exit 0  

In the Option 2:

#!/bin/bash

#

# tomcat

#

# chkconfig: - 80 20

#

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: tomcat

# Required-Start: $network $syslog

# Required-Stop: $network $syslog

# Default-Start:

# Default-Stop:

# Description: Tomcat 

# Short-Description: start and stop tomcat

### END INIT INFO



## Source function library.

#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk

export JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 

  -Dnet.sf.ehcache.skipUpdateCheck=true 

  -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC 

  -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled 

  -XX:+UseParNewGC 

  -XX:MaxPermSize=128m 

  -Xms512m -Xmx512m"

export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat

TOMCAT_USER=tomcat

SHUTDOWN_WAIT=20



tomcat_pid() {

  echo `ps aux | grep org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'`

}



start() {

  pid=$(tomcat_pid)

  if [ -n "$pid" ] 

  then

    echo "Tomcat is already running (pid: $pid)"

  else

    # Start tomcat

    echo "Starting tomcat"

    ulimit -n 100000

    umask 007

    /bin/su -p -s /bin/sh $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh

  fi





  return 0

}



stop() {

  pid=$(tomcat_pid)

  if [ -n "$pid" ]

  then

    echo "Stoping Tomcat"

    /bin/su -p -s /bin/sh $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh



    let kwait=$SHUTDOWN_WAIT

    count=0;

    until [ `ps -p $pid | grep -c $pid` = '0' ] || [ $count -gt $kwait ]

    do

      echo -n -e "nwaiting for processes to exit";

      sleep 1

      let count=$count+1;

    done



    if [ $count -gt $kwait ]; then

      echo -n -e "nkilling processes which didn't stop after $SHUTDOWN_WAIT seconds"

      kill -9 $pid

    fi

  else

    echo "Tomcat is not running"

  fi



  return 0

}



case $1 in

start)

  start

;; 

stop)   

  stop

;; 

restart)

  stop

  start

;;

status)

  pid=$(tomcat_pid)

  if [ -n "$pid" ]

  then

    echo "Tomcat is running with pid: $pid"

  else

    echo "Tomcat is not running"

  fi

;; 

esac    

exit 0

I don't understand why this is needed in the start of option 2:

ulimit -n 100000

umask 007

I changed the ownership with chown -Rvh tomcat: /usr/local/tomcat/

Later

# chmod +x /etc/init.d/tomcat

# chkconfig --add tomcat`

But after restarting the CentOS 6.6, the service is not running.

Testing:

$ echo $JAVA_HOME

$ 



$ echo $PATH

/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/IntUser/bin

$

In other words $JAVA_HOME and $PATH aren't assigned!!!

Trying to start manually (I did not assign password to tomcat user, which password should I use?):

$ service tomcat start

Password: 

/bin/su: incorrect password

$ 

Running as root, I was checking:

# service tomcat start

This account is currently not available.

# 

Checking the account:

# finger tomcat

Login: tomcat                   Name: Tomcat User

Directory: /usr/local/tomcat    Shell: /sbin/nologin

Never logged in.

No mail.

No Plan.

# 





# more /etc/passwd | grep tomcat

tomcat:x:493:490:Tomcat User:/usr/local/tomcat:/sbin/nologin

# 

Checking the ownership:

# ls -al /usr/local/tomcat/

total 120

drwxr-xr-x.  9 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 09:29 .

drwxr-xr-x. 20 root   root    4096 Jun 27 09:29 ..

drwxr-xr-x.  2 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 09:29 bin

drwxr-xr-x.  3 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 11:04 conf

drwxr-xr-x.  2 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 09:29 lib

-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat 56977 May 19 15:03 LICENSE

drwxr-xr-x.  2 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 11:04 logs

-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat  1397 May 19 15:03 NOTICE

-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat  6741 May 19 15:03 RELEASE-NOTES

-rw-r--r--.  1 tomcat tomcat 16204 May 19 15:03 RUNNING.txt

drwxr-xr-x.  2 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 09:29 temp

drwxr-xr-x.  7 tomcat tomcat  4096 May 19 15:00 webapps

drwxr-xr-x.  3 tomcat tomcat  4096 Jun 27 11:04 work

# 

Please help me.

Question 1:
The script was created in: /etc/init.d/tomcat. Why were $JAVA_HOME and $PATH not assigned?

Question 2
Is there a method to install a service without root privileges, that starts at boot time without intervention (e.g., sudo, su, etc)?

Neither of the tutorials you mentioned suggest using useradd with all of those options. By setting the login shell to /sbin/nologin you encounter:

incorrect password 

and

This account is currently not available

The following command will cause tomcat to be a system account without a /home/tomcat directory:

useradd -r tomcat --shell /bin/false

And this command will create a non-system tomcat account with a /home/tomcat directory:

useradd tomcat --shell /bin/false

EDIT:

You are correct about the similarities of /sbin/nologin and /bin/false. The install instructions from Option #2 in the OP seem to be somewhat incomplete. I suggest using just one set of instructions until tomcat is working.

This is the Tomcat 8 version of Option #1 you provided. I suggest using only these instructions to get your installation working. (It looks like mixing and matching is causing some grief.) By doing this, you will avoid other issues like your $JAVA_HOME and $PATH not being exported (Question 1) and Question 2 will be answered as well.

Notice in your Option #1 script, you have lines like this:

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh   

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  

/bin/su $TOMCAT_USER $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh

However the Option #1 link you provided has these lines:

sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh       

sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  

sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh  

sh $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh