Adding remote debugging to tomcat7

[Ronald Klop]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:49:50 +0100, David Demelier  
<demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> Sorry for cross posting, I'm not on the freebsd-java list.
>
> I would like to enable remote debugging to tomcat, as seen here
> http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing#Q1 it is said to add the
> following options to the JVM :
>
> -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n
>
> So I have added to the rc.conf
>
> tomcat7_enable="YES"
> tomcat7_java_opts="-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xdebug
> -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n"
>
> Note that the first option is only to prevent a PermGen out of space
> error. With that setup, tomcat fails to starts with:
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat7: WARNING: failed to start tomcat7
>
> And in the tomcat logs:
>
> NPT ERROR: Cannot open library
> Service exit with a return value of 1
>
> I am using tomcat-7.0.34 on FreeBSD 9-STABLE amd64.
>
> Cheers,


What java version are you using?

Ronald.