By milan7
I follow the Digital Ocean Guide How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on CentOS 7? https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-apache-tomcat-8-on-centos-7 Because I want to able to run Tomcat as a service. But in the config file(/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service) there is a wrong part: I got folowing error if I get the command: **systemctl tomcat status: **ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) here is the content of the file:
# Systemd unit file for tomcat
[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat
Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'
Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'
ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID
User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
UMask=0007
RestartSec=10
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Hi @milan7,
Thanks for pointing out this bug! I’ve gone over the tutorial and found out what’s going on. So, notice the following line
ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID
in the configuration file. It’s giving a kill signal 15, which states the process to close itself. That’s good until the process you are trying to kill has stuck and can’t do it. In your case,I’ll recommend using
ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 $MAINPID
kill -9 actually closes the process no matter what. So it seems like your process is getting stuck and needs to be killed with -9 rather than -15.
Regards, KDSys
When you use CATALINA_PID in tomcat.service file please make sure to use the path inside of the double-quotes.
Environment="CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/latest/temp/tomcat.pid"
Like below
[Unit]
Description=Tomcat 9 servlet container
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
Environment="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64"
Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.security.egd=file:///dev/urandom -Djava.awt.headless=true"
Environment="CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat/"
Environment="CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat/"
Environment="CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid"
Environment="CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC"
ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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