-bash: ./catalina.sh: No such file or directory

bash ssh freebsd tomcat

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[site /home/public]$ cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin

You should not blindly follow recipes via copy and paste. If you haven't set the CATALINA_HOME variable this will take you to /bin, which obviously (because it is an operating system directory) is not where Tomcat is installed on FreeBSD.

If tomcat 8 is installed from packages/ports and configured for you, the location of the directory tree will be the value of the tomcat8_catalina_base setting that is in /etc/rc.conf{,.local}.

The sysrc command is one of the easiest ways of displaying it:

% sysrc tomcat8_catalina_base

Starting/stopping the pre-supplied tomcat8 service is done with the service command, moreover.

# service tomcat8 start

Life after Guest almost 2 years
Using SSH, I want to execute catalina.sh to start a Tomcat server (from my client Mac terminal).

I log in without any issue.

Then, I do:
```
[site /home/public]$ cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
```
and on Enter I get:
```
[site /bin]$
```
I try:
```
./catalina.sh start
```
but I get:
```
-bash: ./catalina.sh: No such file or directory
```
Edit. I don't know if this is important but I did the following:
```
[site /usr/local]$ cd apache-tomcat-8.5
[site /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5]$ cd bin
[site /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/bin]$ catalina.sh start
-bash: catalina.sh: command not found
[site /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/bin]$ ./catalina.sh start
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/local
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
touch: /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/logs/catalina.out: Read-only file system
./catalina.sh: cannot create /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/logs/catalina.out: Read-only file system
[site /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.5/bin]$ 
```
- Rui F Ribeiro over 5 years
  
  Please add distribution. Also have you configured tomcat? Is any app working or is it a fresh setup? Is also tomcat manually deployed or a package? Which version? Please edit the question
- Life after Guest over 5 years
  
  Tomcat version is 8.5. Tomcat comes pre-configured by the hosting provider but they don't answer basic questions
- Rui F Ribeiro over 5 years
  
  Which linux distro?
- Life after Guest over 5 years
  
  It's not Linux, it's FreeBSD
- Tryna Learn Somethin over 5 years
  
  Check if catalina.sh exists in that folder with ls and check what permission it has
- JdeBP over 5 years
  
  Of course it does not exist in /bin.
- Life after Guest over 5 years
  
  @TrynaLearnSomethin: ls apparently returns a list of commands, not files
- Life after Guest over 5 years
  
  @JdeBP: Of course :-)
- Life after Guest over 5 years
  
  @Kusalananda: honestly, I thought $CATALINA_HOME had been set from the hosting for me
- Rui F Ribeiro over 5 years
  
  @Guest Your question can be on the realm of a vague question because both you and us cannot guess how the provider set up things. But some providers have nice tutorials.
- Life after Guest over 5 years
  
  I agree with you
Life after Guest over 5 years

I have no /etc/rc.conf (I have etc, but there's no rc.conf inside). The command returns sysrc: unknown variable 'tomcat8_catalina_base', and I suppose this is really bad news. The craziest thing of all is my final goal is simply running a JSP page
Life after Guest over 5 years

I added another test