Tomcat – Unable to start apache-tomcat

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I installed Solaris 10 on my machine, but noticed that apache-tomcat is in maintenance state.

I tried these commands but of no use:

svcadm clear apache-tomcat
svcadm enable apache-tomcat

The logs just say this:

Failed to start Tomcat...

[ Aug  2 01:12:10 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]

Can someone please help me troubleshoot the issue?

Best Answer

Review the logs for the FRMI in /var/svc/log/. To see where the logs are, run the following;

You should see output similar to the following;

server$ svcs -xv svc:/system/system-log:default | grep "/var/svc/log"
   See: /var/svc/log/system-system-log:default.log
server$

That will tell you why SMF is putting the service in maintenance-mode.

EDIT: Just saw your update. Okay, now to find out what the SMF manifest is doing when it's called with the start argument.

Look in /var/svc/manifest for a *.xml that has tomcat in the name and read the script and find out what it does.

Perhaps it's unable to create a log file due to a lack of permissions and that is what's causing the start to fail.

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