I run different instances of Tomcat for different contexts. Each context has a server.xml file in its home directory. Since I upgraded to Tomcat 3.1 I use the -f option with startup.sh to point to the right server.xml. This works fine for starting up, but when shutting down I get a "java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused" error. I tried shutdown.sh with the -f option, and also running it with the directory where server.xml is as the current directory, but no luck. It seems to try to shutdown the server declared in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml. Can anybody throw some light on this? Thanx, Gert Koning University of South Africa =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets