<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello list members,<div><br></div><div>For people who runs Mac OS X to host Tomcat container and wants to automatically start up with "launchd", in order to startup geoserver successfully, it is suggested that you set EnvironmentVariable as</div><div><br></div><div><div><key>EnvironmentVariables</key></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <dict>
<key>CATALINA_HOME</key> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <string>/Library/Tomcat</string> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <key>JAVA_OPTS</key></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <string>-Djava.awt.headless=true</string></div><div> </dict></div><div><br></div></div><div>by adding "-Djava.awt.headless=true" to JAVA_OPTS in a launchd plist file.</div><div><br></div><div>I try to describe what I experienced below. Please feel free to correct me as I am a newbie to jsp and Tomcat.</div><div><br></div><div>I found this when recently I installed IPT-RC3 and the accompanying geoserver, it was strange that the geoserver couldn't successfully startup after I launched Tomcat by using Server Admin on Mac OS X Server 10.6 and 10.5, while IPT started up ok. But if I started Tomcat by bin/start.sh, geoserver would launch ok with a process called org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap on the Dock.</div><div><br></div><div>Later I tried testing with a separate installation of Tomcat (in addition to the Apple shipped version). By using the plist described in this book page:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vJttHyVF0SUC&lpg=PA32&ots=i_9xrTuSd1&dq=mac%20os%20x%20tomcat%20launchd&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=mac%20os%20x%20tomcat%20launchd&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=vJttHyVF0SUC&lpg=PA32&ots=i_9xrTuSd1&dq=mac%20os%20x%20tomcat%20launchd&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=mac%20os%20x%20tomcat%20launchd&f=false</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;">(Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly, p.33)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;">geoserver was started up ok if I "sudo launchctl load" the plist in the Terminal, but failed to start up after I reboot the OS.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;">After some googling I understood the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap process is relevant to the launching of geoserver while logged in. So specifying JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true" prevents the need to invoke the bootstrap process at the GUI front, which is usually not ready during the booting process.</span></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>What I didn't test, but I think it'll work, is that the variable can also be specified in the catalina.sh, which is called by launch daemon.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this could be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Burke</div><div><br></div><div>
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