Tomcat recipe and template

tomcat.rb

I have a cookbook that installs Tomcat7, sets up an `/etc/init.d` service to start, stop, or restart Tomcat, and provides a LWRP to deploy applications to the instance from our Artifactory setup.

It all works with one caveat: Tomcat gets restarted every time the chef-client daemon runs, or every 15 minutes in this case.

Here is the `default` recipe, which installs Tomcat and sets up the service:

# Create a tomcat user
user node['tomcat']['tomcat_user'] do
 comment 'tomcat user'
 system true
 shell "/bin/false"
end

# Create home for Tomcat
directory "#{node['tomcat']['tomcat_home']}" do
       owner node['tomcat']['tomcat_user']
       group node['tomcat']['tomcat_user']
       mode "0755"
       recursive true
       action :create
end

# use ark to extract the archive
ark "#{node['tomcat']['tomcat_version']}" do
       path node['tomcat']['tomcat_home']
       url node['tomcat']['tomcat_url']
       version node['tomcat']['tomcat_version']
       owner node['tomcat']['tomcat_user']
       checksum node['tomcat']['checksum']
       action [ :put ]
end

# Create /etc/init.d entry for Tomcat
template "#{node['tomcat']['service']}" do
 source "tomcat7.erb"
 mode "0755"
 owner "root"
 group "root"
end

# Tomcat Service
# Control whether Tomcat restarts automatically or not
if node['tomcat']['autostart']
 service 'tomcat' do
#    service_name "tomcat#{node['tomcat']['base_version']}"
   service_name "tomcat7"
   supports :restart => false, :reload => false, :start => true, :stop => true
   action [ :start, :enable ]
   notifies :run, 'execute[wait for tomcat]', :immediately
   retries 4
   retry_delay 30
 end
end

execute 'wait for tomcat' do
 command 'sleep 5'
 action :nothing
end


I recently added the conditional `if node[‘tomcat’][‘autostart’]` around the `service`. Even with that attribute set to `false` the service restarts with every daemon run.

For completeness sake, here is the template I’m using for the `/etc/init.d` script.

#!/bin/bash
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:        tomcat7
# Required-Start:  $network
# Required-Stop:   $network
# Default-Start:   2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:    0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start/Stop Tomcat server
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

if [ -f <%= node["tomcat"]["tomcat_conf"] %>/catalina.sh.includes ]; then
 source <%= node["tomcat"]["tomcat_conf"] %>/catalina.sh.includes
fi

start() {
 sh <%= node["tomcat"]["tomcat_bin"] %>/startup.sh
}

stop() {
 sh <%= node["tomcat"]["tomcat_bin"] %>/catalina.sh stop -force
}

showconfig() {
 echo ${JAVA_OPTS}
}

case $1 in
 start|stop|showconfig) $1;;
 restart) stop; sleep 2; start;;
 *) echo "Run as $0 <start|stop|restart>"; exit 1;;
esac