Bhai, It is hard to tell what is going on without capturing what is appearing in the window that pops up. Try running "catalina run". This will keep all output in the same window so that you can see the errors.
Patrick Bhai wrote: > > Hi, > > I have downloaded the tomcat source from TC web and have built it and also created a >distribution. But on my Win2K machine when I do "catalina start" from the >CATALINA_HOME\bin, it echoes the JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_HOME and the CATALINA_BASE, >it appears to open a new command window, which it closes instantaneously. The port >8080 on my machine is not in use and looking at the task manager it does not appear >that the java instance is running. > > Is there some other setting that I have to do other than setting the java home and >catalina home in order to run the distribution/build. my catalina home is set to >c:\...jakarta-tomcat-src\dist where ant created the distributables. > > Please point me in the right direction. > > Thanks. > > Bhai -- _____________________________________________________________________ Patrick Luby Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems Phone: 408-276-7471 901 San Antonio Road, USCA14-303 Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 _____________________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>