Metacat Configuration
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Issue 1 here

Issue 2 here

The symptoms are that the metacat service will not show up at all, even though Tomcat is serving, and the following error shows up in the tomcat log (catalina.log):

This message typically occurs in the tomcat log (catalina.log) when Tomcat has been installed on an Ubuntu/Debian system using apt-get install. And the application is started using:

The problem is that the standard startup scripts reference the common java service, jsvc. Metacat will not run under jsvc. The solutions are:

• Download the Metacat binary install package and replace your /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 startup script with the one provided in the package.
• Run Tomcat from the Tomcat binary directory: /bin/startup.sh and /bin/shutdown.sh