Changing of location of catalina.pid for tomcat

Question

"catalina.pid" is not in the "tomcat/bin" folders where it should be and it isn't created there during tomcat starting. The question is how (where) i can redefine path to "catalina.pid" to force it to be created in a right folder.

Thanks in advance,

Larocca

Answer 1

Depending on the installation of tomcat, I have seen instances where catalina.pid is not defined. In this case, shut down tomcat, and define it yourself thusly:

In tomcat/bin/setenv.sh, add this line:

CATALINA_PID="$CATALINA_BASE/bin/catalina.pid"

or for windows (in setenv.bat): set CATALINA_PID=%CATALINA_HOME%/bin/catalina.pid

This will define and create the pid file in the tomcat/bin folder, assuming your CATALINA_HOME is defined as your tomcat folder. However, you may also change the location of the pid file, by just changing the path above.

Disentitle

doesn't work on Windows (but with cygwin). See pub.admc.com/howtos/tomcat/ch05.html – Pommard

I was speaking of tomcat7, which will use a setenv file. I have no experience with tomcat 5/5.5, which is what your doc refers to. Thanks, though. I'll try to update the answer with versions later. (When I'm not on my phone). – Disentitle

Usage of CATALINA_PID variable is described in RUNNING.txt help file from tomcat distributive – Virelay

Answer 2

It's will be in the "temp"

/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid"

Cabretta