[opencms-dev] Solved: Unable to read the OpenCms XML configuration, tomcat5.pid Permission denied, scratchDir ... unusable

[a.westermann at alkacon.com]

Hi,

the difference is that you are executing tomcat with your current 
rights. So if you are root I believe tomcat will run with root 
privileges. With rctomcat5 start tomcat will run as user tomcat or 
tomcat5. Some permissions on your sles are not correct or too 
restrictive for the tomcat user.


Kind Regards,
Achim.

-------------------
Achim Westermann

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org


contact wrote:
> the error was trying to start tomcat with
> rctomcat5 start
> 
> i used another startup script wich was located under
> /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/startup.sh
> _______________________________________startup.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> # 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Start Script for the CATALINA Server
> #
> # $Id: startup.sh,v 1.3.2.1 2004/11/17 20:06:34 yoavs Exp $
> # 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib64/jvm/java-sun/"
> export CATALINA_OPTS="-server -Xms128m -Xmx512m"
> export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat5
> export CATALINA_BASE=/home/gid/gid-online.com/tomcat/gid-online.com
> 
> # Detect OS400: see Bugzilla 31132
> os400=false
> case "`uname`" in
> CYGWIN*) cygwin=true;;
> OS400*) os400=true;;
> esac
>  
> # resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
> PRG="$0"
> 
> while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
>   ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
>   link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
>   if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
>     PRG="$link"
>   else
>     PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`/"$link"
>   fi
> done
>  
> PRGDIR=`dirname "$PRG"`
> EXECUTABLE=catalina.sh
> 
> # Check that target executable exists
> if $os400; then
>   # -x will Only work on the os400 if the files are:
>   # 1. owned by the user
>   # 2. owned by the PRIMARY group of the user
>   # this will not work if the user belongs in secondary groups
>   eval
> else
>   if [ ! -x "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" ]; then
>     echo "Cannot find $PRGDIR/$EXECUTABLE"
>     echo "This file is needed to run this program"
>     exit 1
>   fi
> fi
> 
> exec "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" start "$@"
> _______________________________________EOF
> 
> ... and to stop the Tomcat
> /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/shutdown.sh
> _______________________________________shutdown.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> # 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Stop script for the CATALINA Server
> #
> # $Id: shutdown.sh,v 1.3 2002/08/04 18:19:43 patrickl Exp $
> # 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib64/jvm/java-sun/"
> 
> # resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
> PRG="$0"
> 
> while [ -h "$PRG" ] ; do
>   ls=`ls -ld "$PRG"`
>   link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
>   if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
>     PRG="$link"
>   else
>     PRG=`dirname "$PRG"`/"$link"
>   fi
> done
>  
> PRGDIR=`dirname "$PRG"`
> EXECUTABLE=catalina.sh
> 
> # Check that target executable exists
> if [ ! -x "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" ]; then
>   echo "Cannot find $PRGDIR/$EXECUTABLE"
>   echo "This file is needed to run this program"
>   exit 1
> fi
> 
> exec "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" stop "$@"
> _______________________________________EOF
> 
> 
> help yourself!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ls schrieb:
>> Hi Group,
>>
>> after three years of running opencms stable (with tomcat on linux 2.6)
>> i got an old error back ...
>>
>> org.opencms.main.CmsInitException: Critical error during OpenCms initialization: Unable to read the OpenCms XML configuration.
>> 	org.opencms.main.OpenCmsCore.getInstance(OpenCmsCore.java:269)
>> 	org.opencms.main.OpenCmsServlet.doGet(OpenCmsServlet.java:127)
>> 	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
>> 	javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
>>
>> ... together with some (classic) log-file error-messages:
>>
>> (from catalina.out)
>> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: 
>> /home/gid/gid-online.com/tomcat/gid-online.com/work/Catalina/localhost/opencms 
>> is unusable.
>>
>> ... and (from tomcat start.log)
>> /usr/share/tomcat5/bin/catalina.sh: line 284: /var/run/tomcat5.pid: 
>> Permission denied
>>
>>
>> As far as i understand these errors has something to do withe the 
>> user-rights where tomcat
>> runs on, but i don't know enough, (to solve this by edding the related 
>> config-files), to fix it.
>>
>> Is there someone out there who can guide/help me ?
>>
>> regards,
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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