Steve,

People have tried to help you. Case in point, you emailed me directly 
asking me the following....

"Now, would you please list, very methodically, all of the various steps 
involved in installing Tomcat?! Incidentally, I am trying/attempting to 
install version 4.0.4 without too damned many problems that I might encounter."

I responded with the following....

"First I'd have to know what OS you are installing on.  I won't be able to 
give out any Unix specific install info since I work on Windows.  I also 
need to know what difficulties you are having with your current 
install.  I'd love to help you, but I'm not going to run through every last 
detail of an install because that is what the existing docs and the 
archives of this list are for.  Once you give me some base info to work 
from, we can try to figure out the issue you are having."


I am still awaiting a response letting me know what you are having trouble 
with, specifically.  If you aren't going to bother writing back information 
that I need to help you out, I'm not going to go out of my way to help 
you.  I offered my help and you ignored the offer.  The only reason I can 
see for this behavior is that you want the solution spoon-fed to you so 
others do the work for you and you just benefit from the advice without 
having to do much of any work.  Please don't flame back at me for this 
statement.  If you believe the statement is a mis-characterisation of your 
intent, then prove me wrong by actually providing some evidence that you, 
in fact, *have* read the available documentation.  Until you do this, you 
have nothing to say to anyone else and no one else has *any* obligation to 
answer your pleas for help.

Note:  I am still willing to help you out, but please take the above into 
account before asking for more help in the future.  Make sure you define 
what you have done so far and what exactly you are having difficulty 
with.  No one here will write a book for you just in case one of those 
steps might just solve your issue.  Narrow your scope and you might get 
some better responses....and please stop with the "this is Steve Burris" in 
your email.  We know who you are based on the "from" header in the 
email.  You don't need to tell us again.

later,

Jake



At 12:50 PM 8/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>  This is Steve Burrus again, and I am damned sorry to have to post my 
> plea for
>help/assistance again, but everyday when I first access my email there are
>literally 100's of postings from other members of the Tomcat newsgroup, and my
>original post--and any response--is VERY DIFFICULT to locate, so here it 
>is again:
>   How exactly does one go about installing the Tomcat 4.0.* correctly??? 
> I have
>"racked my brain" in trying to figure out how to do this, but I simply 
>cannot do
>it myself, I am afraid to say! Thanx in advance to anyone who can help me!
>
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