I was reinstalling some old system on new O/S.. CentOS release 5.4 (Final) before this I think was older version. After few time restarting Geoserver , no luck.. I tried the manual run of the script as follows : export JAVA_HOME=$JHOME; export GEOSERVER_HOME=/opt/geoserver;export GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/opt/geos_shapefiles; /bin/sh $GEOSERVER_HOME/bin/startup.sh > /dev/null 2>1& export JAVA_HOME=$JHOME; export GEOSERVER_HOME=/opt/geoserver;export GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/opt/geos_shapefiles; /bin/sh […]

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