is my tomcat there?---UNIX

[rajib chakrabarti]

I am on an UNIX ( SUN SOLARIS) machine in a multi user envioronment.

I needed to run tomcat...

On inspection I find 2 directory which refer to tomcat...

1> /var/apache..

ompmum4 rchakra> pwd
/var/apache
ompmum4 rchakra> ls
cgi-bin htdocs icons logs proxy servlets tomcat
ompmum4 rchakra> more tomcat

*** tomcat: directory ***

ompmum4 rchakra> ls -las
total 24
2 drwxr-xr-x 9 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 1024 Feb 25 04:40 ..
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 cgi-bin
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 1024 Feb 25 04:40 htdocs
8 drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 3584 Feb 25 04:40 icons
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 logs
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 512 Sep 22 2003 proxy
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 servlets
2 drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 tomcat
ompmum4 rchakra> cd tomcat
ompmum4 rchakra> ls -las
total 12
2 drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 9 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 ..
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 conf
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody bin 512 Sep 23 2003 logs
2 drwxr-xr-x 7 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 webapps
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody bin 512 Sep 23 2003 work
ompmum4 rchakra> cd conf
ompmum4 rchakra> ls -las
otal 136
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 512 Feb 25 04:40 ..
14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 6700 Nov 2 2002 catalina.policy
24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 11563 Nov 2 2002 server-noexamples.xml.config
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 16092 Nov 2 2002 server.xml-example
2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 440 Nov 2 2002 tomcat-users.xml
60 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 30708 Nov 2 2002 web.xml


2> /usr/apache



ompmum4 rchakra> pwd
/usr/apache
ompmum4 rchakra> ls -las
total 22
2 drwxr-xr-x 10 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 38 root sys 1024 Jan 12 03:02 ..
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Jan 18 04:37 bin
2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 htdocs
2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 1024 Jan 18 04:37 include
2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 jserv
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 1536 Jan 18 04:37 libexec
2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 man
2 drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 perl5
2 drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 tomcat
ompmum4 rchakra> cd tomcat
ompmum4 rchakra> ls -las
total 12
2 drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 10 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 ..
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Aug 20 2004 bin
2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 common
2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Aug 20 2004 lib
2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Aug 18 2004 server


This is leading to confusion...

I need to know ........

a> whether the tomcat under apache directory is the one that can work as servlet container?

b>OR i need to install the jakarta-tomcat separately ....

c>If case b above is true then what is the purpose of the tomcat references lying in the machine...

Pl help

[Ben Souther]

Somebody else may have installed it or it may have shipped with the OS.
When working on a Linux box, I ususally like to start with a clean install of Tomcat. You would have to check with your system administrator to see if this is possible or if you will need to use the existing one.