tomcat startup script not working at boot

[Colin Law]

On 25 February 2011 14:57, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 February 2011 05:28, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>...
>>> My script has finally worked.
>>> For some weired reason the script was not working after reboot and it
>>> turns out that this Tomcat was not able to pick JAVA_HOME from .bashrc
>>> at the boot time.So when I defined JAVA_HOME in the above script also
>>> then it did worked.
>>
>> Which user's .bashrc did you put JAVA_HOME in?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>> I do not know why Tomcat could not pick it from .bashrc at boot time
>>> because once the thing completely booted then
>>> /etc/init.d/tapas-script start
>>> was working but to make sure it survives reboots I had to add
>>> JAVA_HOME in this script also (though it was defined in .bashrc)
>>
> root I was always doing it from there and still from there.

Is root 'logged in' at the time in the boot operation where the script
is run, in other words is root's .bashrc available at that time, or is
it just that everything is run with root's permissions at that time?

Colin