Tag Archive: jboss

Jul 29

JBoss port confusion

Sometimes, JBoss reports that it is unable to bind to a port, saying it is already in use. However, this is not always the case.

Sep 25

JBoss run.sh may be harmful

A coworker and I discovered an issue with jboss’ run.sh (which starts the app server).  The problem lies in different flavours of unix (or unix-like) shells returning different values for wait. The relevant code is:

This is all well and good in linux — redhat uses /bin/bash and ubuntu uses /bin/dash for /bin/sh — …

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