tomcat on freebsd

[Lowell Gilbert]

eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> writes:

> Ashley Moran wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> Nope I dont have that. I did try run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat55.sh to
> >> start it but without having added tomcat_enable="YES" to my rc.conf.
> >> Nothing happened. So I will add that line and try it again...
> >> Thanks for the info.
> >> Eoghan
> > All the rc.d scripts work the same - they check to see if they are
> > enabled (from the script's point of view, when you call them
> > manually it's no different than being called at boot time).  You can
> > also call /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat55.sh with force/one before the
> > start to make it run without the rc.conf variable but I've never
> > actually used them)
> > Ashley
> 
> Thanks
> I have added tomcat_enable="YES" to my rc.conf.
> When I try run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat55.sh start it just does not
> seem to do anything. Is there something I am missing?

Look at the top of that script file.  Perhaps you want tomcat55_enable
for the variable name?