I see the following file in the root directory looks like some type of escaping issue.
[root_at_nikita24 glassfish]# ls -lart
total 336
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 11:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 906 Aug 13 11:45 ${srvcRegis.file}
drwxr-xr-x 14 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:45 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 domains
drwxr-xr-x 7 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 updatecenter
drwxr-xr-x 3 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 samples
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 1553 Aug 13 11:46 registry.xml
drwxr-xr-x 8 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 jbi
drwxr-xr-x 9 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 13 11:46 imq
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 36116 Aug 13 11:46 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 4657 Aug 13 11:46 COPYRIGHT
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 16782 Aug 13 11:46 CDDLv1.0.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 1936 Aug 13 11:46 CDDLGPLHeader.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 gfish gfish 215748 Aug 13 11:46 3RD-PARTY-LICENSE.txt
-rw------- 1 gfish gfish 118 Aug 13 11:46 .asadminpass
drwxr-xr-x 10 gfish gfish 4096 Aug 26 10:47 .
more \$\{srvcRegis.file\}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<registry>
<service_tag>
<instance_urn>${instance.urn}</instance_urn>
<product_name>${product.name}</product_name>
<product_version>${product.version}</product_version>
<product_urn>${product.urn}</product_urn>
<product_parent_urn>${product.parent.urn}</product_parent_urn>
<product_parent>${product.parent}</product_parent>
<product_defined_inst_id>${product.instance.id}</product_defined_inst_id>
<product_vendor>${product.vendor}</product_vendor>
<platform_arch>i386</platform_arch>
<container>${container}</container>
<source>${source}</source>
<status>NOT_TRANSFERRED</status>
<registration_status>NOT_REGISTERED</registration_status>
</service_tag>
<registration_reminder>ASK_FOR_REGISTRATION</registration_reminder>
</registry>
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