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Re: Problem with using tomcat startup/shutdown.sh I had the same problem, but using the new way to start/stop services introduced in Intrepid Ibex works nicely: $ sudo service tomcat6 stop * Stopping Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ] $ sudo service tomcat6 start * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ] $ or of course the more traditional way: I have installed tomcat6 from synaptic and after viewing http://localhost:8080 it shows the "it works" screen and shows my catalina variables as being... CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat6 CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/tomcat6 ...however running the shutdown script gives the following error... Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat6 Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat6 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat6/temp Using JRE_HOME: /usr 21-Dec-2008 23:24:39 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catali ## Solution $ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 stop * Stopping Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ] $ sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6 [ OK ] | |