tomcat startup script not working at boot

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
: [full quote of previous email - not needed]
>
> 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.
> 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)
>

Did you export JAVA_HOME?

What .bashrc is this in?  If it is tied to a specific user account,
that might not work - you may need to edit one of the global bashrc
files (/etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/bashrc, depending on which one you
have).