Duane: Can you post the messages that you got please
David
Gilles Laborderie wrote:
>
> This sounds like the correct behaviour to me.
> It doesn't return to the bash prompt because it will output the STDERR
> messages in this window.
> Try to access http://localhost:8080/ to see if Tomcat is running.
>
> Gilles
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Duane Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:53 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: problems installing tomcat on linux
> >
> >
> > hi gang!
> >
> > i sent this message yesterday and i didn't get any responses.
> therefore,
> > i'm resending it.
> >
> > i'm a linux newbie, so please bear with me. i'm running red hat linux
> > 6.2. i installed apache 1.3.19 and tested it, so i know that its
> > working.
> > tomcat 3.2.1 is giving me problems. i installed java 2se 1.3.1
> > (and tested
> > it, so i know it's working). i then un-tarred the tomcat tarball and
> set
> > the environment variables from bash as follows:
> >
> > export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.3.1
> > export TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat
> >
> > i then typed in the following (from bash) from the tomcat/bin
> directory:
> > ./startup
> > some messages appeared on the screen, then bash appeared to hang
> > (it didn't
> > return to the prompt after a few minutes). i didn't get a
> > tomcat.log file
> > so i can't figure out what went wrong. can someone please help me
> > troubleshoot this madness?
> >
> > tia
> >
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> > * javascript }
> >
