tomcatctl fails to stop Tomcat

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 25, 2008, at 14:08, Guy Davis wrote:

> Hi, I'm moving from a Fedora Core system for my JSP-based web site  
> to Mac OSX
> 10.5.  I just installed Apache, mod_jk, and Tomcat 5 using MacPorts.
> However, even though Tomcat's server.xml file has the following:
>
>   <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
>
> a quick netstat shows that Tomcat is not actually listening to 8005  
> when it
> starts.  So when I run:
>
>   sudo tomcatctl stop
>
> I get this on the console:
>
>   Stopping Tomcat...(pid 3468)............... giving up.
>
> and this in catalina.2008-06-25.log:
>
>   Jun 24, 2008 9:37:20 PM org.apache.catalina.startup
> .Catalina stopServer
>   SEVERE: Catalina.stop:
>   java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
>   ...
>
> Any ideas?  How are people currently stopping tomcat?  Right now  
> all I can do is 'kill PID' and then it is restarted (by daemondo?)

Have you tried:

sudo launchctl -w unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/ 
org.macports.tomcat5.plist

That would be the usual way to stop any launchd-managed process. To  
start it again:

sudo launchctl -w load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.tomcat5.plist