While this is slightly off topic, I wasted enough time on it that I felt it necessary to share with others.
I am running tomcat 4.1 as a service on windows 2003(requirement) and I was having a problem with it crashing. Usually it left an hs_err_pid*.log file which pointed to a JNI library that I use. The problem was that I could no longer find these log files(explorer->search) and tomcat seemed to be crashing with no log, error, or anything. The thought occurred to me that maybe the user under which tomcat was running(I recently added this) did not have permission to write the log file. So I found out that the hs_err_pid* will be written to the current directory(system32) and if not successful, to the TEMP directory for the user. While checking permissions, I found all the hs_err_pid* files in the user's temp directory. Apparently even if you are an administrator, a search in windows explorer does not search other user's 'documents and settings'(where the user's temp directory is located). Here I was expecting "search" to find the files that are there. What was I thinking? I have not found anything about this on the net so I don't know how to disable it. While you can disable the filtering of unknown extensions in searches in windows 2003 explorer, that was not my problem as other hs_*.log files were found in the search results. FWIW, apparently "dir /s hs_*.log" in a command prompt still works correctly. Charlie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]