Interested to know how people usually check to see if Tomcat is running on a Unix environment.
I either check that the process is running using
ps -ef | grep java
ps -ef | grep logging
or i check that the port number is active
netstat -a | grep 8080
is there a better way of checking that Tomcat is running? The above seem to be to be a 'hacky' way of checking that Tomcat is running.
Answer
On my linux system, I start Tomcat with the startup.sh script. To know whether it is running or not, i use
ps -ef | grep tomcat
If the output result contains the whole path to my tomcat folder, then it is running