tomcat startup.sh trouble finding JAVA_HOME

Question

I am a bit puzzled by this strange behavior on CentOs 5.4 when starting Tomcat 6.0 as a service

I've added a script at /etc/init.d/tomcat that can start/stop/restart Apache Tomcat 6.0 with user 'tomcat', and registered it as service. The problem with the service is that I am getting a 'Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined'. But when type 'sudo -u tomcat echo $JAVA_HOME' I get '/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_22' which is correct since I am using that JDK. What can I do about this?

Answer 1

Have you tried forcing the JAVA_HOME env variable into the start script itself? Whenever I face a problem liek this I find it a good troubleshooting technique to try and track down where it is losing this info by setting it in the scripts themselves.

Answer 2

Have you checked the paths in /etc/profile.d/java.sh ?

Also try checking which java version it return with: which java

this should return the exact paths in java.sh if not you have a misconfiguration. in the later case uninstall all java and reinstall latest jdk.

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