linux tips

Tomcat Remote debugging in linux
Put the below in catalina.sh

JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket
JPDA_ADDRESS=5005
$./catalina.sh jpda start

Startup script with logging: Create a file with the following and change the mode to executable under $catalina_home/bin ./startup.sh;tail -f ../logs/catalina.out For shutdown create as below: ./shutdown.sh;tail -f ../logs/catalina.out Restart script for linux: ./shutdown.sh echo "shutdown.sh executed" echo "Sleeping for 5 seconds after shutdown" sleep 5 ./startup.sh echo "starting up" echo "Sleeping for 1 second" tail -f ../logs/catalina.out Jar usage $cd portal-impl $jar xvf portal-impl.jar :extracts the jar file into portal-impl dir. $jar cvf portal-impl-patched.jar portal-impl/ :make jar file from portal-impl dir contents the jar will be having portal-impl as the root dir. To change ownership: $chown tomcat:tomcat FILE_NAME To change group: $chgrp tomcat FILE_NAME To Switch user: $su USER_NAME

Clear all unwanted .SVN files

find . -name ".svn"-exec rm -rf {} \;