Solved the problem, the problem was I had a typo.... In tomcat-users.xml I forgot a " I had : <user username="XXXX" password="XXXX" roles=admin"/>
and this should be: <user username="XXXX" password="XXXX" roles="admin"/> :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Louwers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:17 AM Subject: Tomcat NOT running > I have a problem, > we found this morning that the tomcat server is not starting.. when we do > manual ./startup.sh all looks good buth tomcat is not started. When we do > ./shutdown.sh I get the following error: > > # ./shutdown.sh > Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27 > Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27 > Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.27/temp > Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1_05 > Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused > java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305) > at > java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171) > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158) > at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:434) > at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:384) > at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:291) > at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:119) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stop(Catalina.java:581) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:402) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 > ) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl > .java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) > # > > Any clue anybody? > > Regards, > Johan. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]