[Fab-user] Cant start tomcat with Fabric

[Charlie White]

Hello All,

   I'm looking for help with starting tomcat from Fabric. I've tried on a couple of different machines and none work. Oddly, stopping Tomcat works fine.

Here are my fabric functions:

def start_tomcat():

sudo("/etc/init.d/tomcat-8080 start")

def stop_tomcat():

sudo("/etc/init.d/tomcat-8080 stop")

On both shutdown and startup, I see the correct output. So from all appearances the start command was run on the remote server, and the expected output was seen, below:

[blueman.cashstar.lan] Executing task 'start_tomcat'

[blueman.cashstar.lan] sudo: /etc/init.d/tomcat-8080 start

[blueman.cashstar.lan] Login password: 

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: Starting Tomcat 8080.

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/local/tomcat-8080

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/local/tomcat-8080

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/tomcat-8080/temp

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: Using JRE_HOME:        /usr

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/local/tomcat-8080/bin/bootstrap.jar

[blueman.cashstar.lan] out: 

However, Tomcat is not starting, and Catalina.out shows no record of an attempted startup. I've also tried using other startup scripts like "catalina.sh start" and startup.sh, both of which have not worked.

Anyone have any ideas?

thanks a lot,

  Charlie White