An Apache Tomcat server, I administrate, used to go away every now and then some time ago. To investigate the issue, I connected to the server via SSH, restarted it and monitored the log for a while. Tomcat ran well during this time. I disconnected and went home. Then the phone ringed, server had gone [...]

In this somehow weekly series of posts I summarize noteworthy problems I encountered during my work week and how I solved them. This week I tried to set up a fully automated installation for Centos 5.3 and ran into some problems.