starting Tomcat6

[matt donovan]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Joseph Simmons <josephdsimmons at gmail.com>wrote:

> It is now :), but that should only effect things when the computer
> starts up. I'm still not able to start tomcat from it's rc.d script.
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Matthew Seaman
> <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> > Joseph Simmons wrote:
> >>
> >> uname -a gives:
> >> 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
> >> root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> >>
> >> I installed Apache Tomcat from the ports collection
> >> (/usr/ports/www/tomcat6) without error. From the documentation that
> >> I've seen, starting tomcat is done with the following command
> >>
> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat6 start
> >>
> >> But when I do this (as root or otherwise), the tomcat process doesn't
> >> seem to start. Should there be some other way of starting the process?
> >
> > Did you put:
> >
> >  tomcat6_enable="YES"
> >
> > into /etc/rc.conf ?
> >
> >        Cheers,
> >
> >        Matthew
> >
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no you must have tomcat_enable="yes"  in your rc.conf to even run the script
unless you forcestart it. so ps aux does not show tomcat as running?