Question

I have a script that needs to run after tomcat has finished starting up and is ready to start deploying applications. I’m using $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh which returns immediately. How can I wait until tomcat has finished starting up?

Answer 1

There are probably several ways to do this. The trick we use is:

#!/bin/bash  until [ '`curl --silent --show-error --connect-timeout 1 -I http://localhost:8080 | grep 'Coyote'`' != '' ]; do   echo --- sleeping for 10 seconds   sleep 10 done  echo Tomcat is ready! 

Hope this helps!