Thanks Bill, That was indeed the issue, gnu tar restored the contents properly That bold message you refer to would have saved me hours
p.s. I'm not using Solaris or Mac/OS so if the message is restored it should just state that gnu tar should be used imho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:37 AM Subject: Re: 4.1.29 tar file & Cannot find message resources under key org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE > I was going to have really good fun at your expense, but it seems that the > nice big bold message that tells you to not use Solaris or Mac/OS tar has > gone away :-(. > > However, that's the answer: use the GNU gtar instead. > > "tommy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am getting this error returned to my browser when accessing > http://10.1.1.1:8080/admin > > org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Cannot find message resources under key > org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE > at > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:2 > 54) > at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295) > at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) > > This is from an out-of-the-box install i.e. I downloaded Tomcat version > 4.1.29.tar.gz from http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi then unzipped > and untarred the entire contents to my root directory. > > I discovered that the reason for the error is that the servlet is unable to > find "org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.class" > > Turns out the tar file "appears" to contains a lot of very long pathnames > which are truncated if they exceed 100 bytes e.g. > > jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/webapp > /admin/ApplicationServle > > I don't see a tar option that gets around this. Is this just my version of > tar that's doing this? Or is it a problem with the tar file? Could someone > verify it e.g. "tar tvf jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29.tar" > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
