[BIGTOP-537] provide a workaround for non-LSB compliant catalina.sh handling of a stop action

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: general
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 17/Apr/12 01:13
• Updated: 21/Jun/13 23:55
• Resolved: 17/Apr/12 17:31

Description

Turns out that the default catalina.sh stop action is a weird in how it handles a missing PID file:

 if [ ! -z "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
    if [ -f "$CATALINA_PID" ]; then
    ...
    else
      echo "\$CATALINA_PID was set but the specified file does not exist. Is Tomcat running? Stop aborted."
      exit 1
    fi
  fi

This, effectively, means that one can't stop an already stopped service cleanly.