Is it possible to start a shell session in a running container (without ssh)

Question

I was naively expecting this command to run a bash shell in a running container :

docker run \"id of running container\" /bin/bash

it look

Answer 1

If the goal is to check on the application's logs, this post shows starting up tomcat and tailing the log as part of CMD. The tomcat log is available on the host using 'docker logs containerid'.

http://blog.trifork.com/2013/08/15/using-docker-to-efficiently-create-multiple-tomcat-instances/