Actually, if you start Tomcat like this: ./catalina.sh run
It starts Tomcat in the same shell you are currently running. You can do the same under Windows with catalina run >From the CATALINA_HOME/bin directory. -------------------------------------------- Nathan McMinn Application Developer NequalsOne - HealthCare marketing tools mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.NequalsOne.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Giorgio Franceschetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:15 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat won't start > > > Probably it is not that, but I had a similar problem and I edited the > startup file to echo the values of the variables. > It showed what I expected. > The problem is that tomcat is started in another shell. > This new shell doesn't have its parent's environment > variables, only the > ones set globally. > Bye, > Giorgio > > > Nathan Mcminn wrote: > > >I don't think that is the problem. The startup script has > no problem > >reading JAVA_HOME or CATALINA_HOME. It is only after > bootstrap.jar is > >executed and the server.xml file is read that the problem > occurs. It > >is almost like the classloader that is being used cannot see > >catalina.jar in /server/lib. Is there any way to determine what > >classpaths are available to the classloader at that point? > > > >-------------------------------------------- > >Nathan McMinn > >Application Developer > >NequalsOne - HealthCare marketing tools mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.NequalsOne.com > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Giorgio Franceschetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:42 AM > >>To: Tomcat Users List > >>Subject: Re: Tomcat won't start > >> > >> > >>I have had a similar problema, but on win XP. The problem was > >>due to the > >>fact that I had set the JAVA_HOME and the CATALINA_HOME as session > >>variable and not like system ones. > >>Don't know if this is the case, but.... > >>Good luck! > >> Giorgio > >> > >>Nathan Mcminn wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>The problem posted below appears to be caused by Tomcat not > >>> > >>> > >>being able > >> > >> > >>>to find catalina.jar. This file should be (and is) located in > >>>catalina_home/server/lib. Anybody know why Tomcat would > >>> > >>> > >>have problems > >> > >> > >>>finding it? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>One of our servers running Tomcat as started experiencing an odd > >>>>problem. Tomcat will not start, it is complaining about > not being > >>>>able to find some classes. The problem started shortly after > >>>>applying some updates using YAST. The exception it > throws is shown > >>>>below. We are running Tomcat 4.1.24 on JDK 1.4.1-b21 on > SUSE 8. We > >>>>have another server with a very similar config that works > perfectly > >>>>(only difference is the distribution it runs on, RH vs SUSE) I > >>>>have checked CATALINA_HOME and JAVA_HOME and they both point > >>>>to the correct locations. I modified catalina.sh to display > >>>>the CLASSPATH it uses when starting catalina and included it > >>>>as well. There are a couple references to this problem in > >>>>the mailing list archives, but it was never answered. > >>>> > >>>>JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java > >>>>CATALINA_HOME=/opt/jakarta > >>>>CLASSPATH=/usr/lib/java/lib/tools.jar:/opt/jakarta/bin/boo > tstrap.jar > >>>> > >>>>Any ideas? > >>>> > >>>>ERROR reading /opt/jakarta/conf/server.xml > >>>>At Line 5 /Server/Listener/ > >>>>className=org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListen > er debug=0 > >>>> > >>>>Catalina.start: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > >>>>org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener > >>>>java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > >>>>org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener > >>>> > >>>>-------------------------------------------- > >>>>Nathan McMinn > >>>>Application Developer > >>>>NequalsOne - HealthCare marketing tools > >>>>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.NequalsOne.com > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> > >>>> > >>--------- > >> > >> > >>>>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] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > >>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] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
