[DaGuy]

There are several Java based Tomcat wrappers out there but I'm interested in building one in Cocoa. I started yesterday (went to bed pretty late) and so far I can read the Tomcat log files but I'm unable to start Tomcat -dough!

I need to set environment variables but how does one do this from Cocoa since NSTask is not binded to a specific shell. This means that I don't know if sentenv or export is the way to go. For the moment being neither of these is working.

Here's a snipplet:

// -----------------------------------
// this doesn't work
// -----------------------------------

commandStart =[[TaskWrapper alloc] initWithController:self arguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"/bin/sh", @"/Users/bido/Dev/bin/start_tomcat", nil]];
[commandStart startProcess];

// -----------------------------------
// this works as expected
// -----------------------------------

command=[[TaskWrapper alloc] initWithController:self arguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"/usr/bin/tail",@"-f",@"/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24/logs/catalina.out",nil]];
[command startProcess];

// -----------------------------------

I borrowed TaskWrapper(which returns an NSString and makes asynchronous system calls) from somewhere on the web and it works as expected.

Any ideas on how to set environment variables? I need to set JAVA_HOME and the CATALINA_HOME variables before starting Tomcat.

I realize that the above snipplet is not much to go on. But apart from TaskWrapper, the rest of the code is very common place and straightforward.

Thanks!

[Arkham_c]

Why not embed the shell in the task? To start tomcat, do something like this:

Code:
/bin/sh -c "cd `dirname $0`/tomcat/bin/ && ./startup.sh"

[DaGuy]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
Why not embed the shell in the task? To start tomcat, do something like this:

Code:
/bin/sh -c "cd `dirname $0`/tomcat/bin/ && ./startup.sh"

Thanks. However, I'm not sure if I understand the above clearly enough.

You are passing ./starup as the $0 argument to the cd command but it somehow doesn't need to be passed the directory name?



Also the -c option is not available, did you mean -C which is noclobber?

I messed various permutations on the terminal and didn't get to work. When I get it to work, I'll move it to the code.

Best,