Tomcat Won't Start

Question

I installed Tomcat on a Raspberry Pi I got, and everything was working great. However, yesterday, it seemed to stop working. The first thing that I noticed, was that when I attempted to run the startup script, I got the following error...

touch: cannot touch `/opt/lib/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/logs/catalina.out': Permission denied
/opt/lib/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/bin/catalina.sh: 391: /opt/lib/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/bin/catalina.sh: cannot create /opt/lib/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/logs/catalina.out: Permission denied

This hadn't happened before, but whatever...I did a chmod catalina.out and the error went away. Unfortunately, I wasn't having any luck hitting the Tomcat manager (ie. :8080). I looked at the output from the startup script and noticed that JRE home was set to /usr, which didn't seem right, so I changed the Tomcat startup script to point JRE_HOME to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-armhf. I still can't access the Tomcat manager, though. Furthermore when I look at the processes running on my Pi, Tomcat is nowhere to be found.

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

I wrote an alias to run the startup script, and forgot to include sudo before the path to the script. Doh!