Hi all,

My tiny mind is struggling with the following script that shuts down Tomcat on Sol. 8 and kills any defunct processes Tomcat might leave behind (as it so often does). I realize that fixing Tomcat would be best, but this is a band-aid so I won't have to do as much off-hours support of this pig, which will hopefully buy me time to research the matter more thoroughly.

Anyway, on to the goods...

#!/bin/sh
# variables
tcpid=`ps -ef |grep java |grep -v grep |sort |awk '{print $2}'`
signal=9
tclog=/opt/local/jakarta/logs/catalina.out
now=`date +'%Y%m%d%H%M'`

# Shutdown Tomcat
/opt/local/jakarta/bin/shutdown.sh

sleep 20

if [ $tcpid != "" ]
do
    (sudo kill $signal) $tcpid
        sleep 5
else [ $tcpid = "" ]
        echo "Java Stopped"
done

# manage catalina.out, cache dirs and core dumps
cp $tclog /opt/local/jakarta/logs/catalina.out.$now
>/opt/local/jakarta/logs/catalina.out
gzip /opt/local/jakarta/logs/catalina.out.$now
rm -rf /opt/local/jakarta/work/Apache/*
find /opt/local/jakarta/ -name core |xargs rm
# wait for tomcat cache to clear
sleep 30

# restart this pig
/opt/local/jakarta/bin/startup.sh

exit

if [ $tcpid != "" ]
do
    (sudo kill $signal) $tcpid
        sleep 5
else [ $tcpid = "" ]
        echo "Java Stopped"
done