service tomcat7 start fails, but the process exists and tomcat is running

Question

I have been trying to install tomcat7 on ubuntu docker images with apt-get install tomcat7. The installation works fine and starting tomcat from the catalina.sh wo

Answer 1

I happens have the some situation, it caused by deleting /var/lib/tomcat7/logs directory, where I remake the directory, it owned by another user, so that tomcat7 can not restart, and not logs output, I change own, now it works fine.

sudo chown tomcat7.tomcat7 /var/log/tomcat7
sudo chown tomcat7.tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/logs