launchd and Tomcat

The default tomcat distribution has startup.sh and shutdown.sh shell
scripts. The startup.sh script returns once it has started Tomcat.

Is there any way to:

- use launchd with a process which forks and terminates? (I know the
launchd docs specifically say that launchd managed processes shouldn't
do that, so I'm assuming no, but thought I would ask)

- use launchd with a process which needs special shutdown handling?

Should I be wrapping Tomcat like this? (pseudocode)

startup.sh
wait for tomcat to terminate (if it dies unexpectedly, launchd will
restart it, which is good) or a signal from launchd to shut down (how
does launchd communicate that? kill -SIGINT?

if we caught a signal, run shutdown.bat

Thanks,
Tom

In article <>,
Tom Davies <> wrote:

> The default tomcat distribution has startup.sh and shutdown.sh shell
> scripts. The startup.sh script returns once it has started Tomcat.
>
> Is there any way to:
>
> - use launchd with a process which forks and terminates? (I know the
> launchd docs specifically say that launchd managed processes shouldn't
> do that, so I'm assuming no, but thought I would ask)

I think the "RunAtLoad" setting would handle this. However...

> - use launchd with a process which needs special shutdown handling?

I don't think so. I see that Apache has yet to be migrated to launchd
management. If you're familiar with Apache at all, the startup item
configuration at /System/Library/StartupItems/Apache/ would probably be
a useful example of doing it the "old fashioned" way.

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