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Grails forked tomcat execution not working

Grails 2.2.0

I added

grails.project.fork.run=true

to the Config.groovy file. On the command line, issued:

grails run-app

My understanding of the fork ability is that the grails system would exit, leaving tomcat running. But it never exits. I have to control+c to leave it, which also kills tomcat. So I don't believe tomcat is being forked. Am I missing something?

When doing a run-app I'm seeing a single Java process in both top and Activity Monitor. I'm also only seeing a single process when I execute:

ps aux | grep java

Per the comments in Ian's answer, I should be seeing 2 processes.

Solution

  • The docs are misleading, you have to put that configuration line in BuildConfig.groovy, not Config.groovy (tried with version 2.2.1).