"Jacob Kjome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Bill, > > Couple suggestions and a question... > > First, the service.bat script should really be setting -Djava.io.tmpdir, > just as the catalina.bat script does. Additionally, unless you provide > %JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar to the --ImagePath, JSP compilation will fail, > although you might be fooled in cases where JSP's were pre-compiled and > mapped as servlets. Try out a plain-jane non-precompiled JSP. Probably > also dump the contents of the work directory just to be sure. >
Noted. I'll see what the other developers opinions on this are before changing anything (since 'service.bat' does pretty much what the installer does). But you make a good case :) > Now for the question. How does one tell the service to use the -server > VM? I've tried setting -server as one of the --JavaOptions, but that > causes the server not to start. I've also tried doing... > --Java "%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll". That seems to work, but then > logging (at least to stdout.log) no longer works. > Yup, that is a 'feature' in the current version. I think that the next major version of procrun will have a fix for this. > I assume that "--Java java" is just going to start up the default client > VM, correct? There's got to be a way to use the -server switch and not > interfere with the service starting or logging to stdout stopping, > otherwise this should be considered a bug in the procrun daemon. > In the current CVS-HEAD (which should appear with 5.0.19), you should be able to specify this with --JavaOptions. > Jake > > At 07:01 PM 1/2/2004 -0800, you wrote: > >The instructions to do it manually are at > >http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon/procrun.html. There is also a new > >'service.bat' file in the CVS > >http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-tomcat-catalina/catalina/src/bin/ service.bat, > >that simplifies the process of manually installing Tomcat as a service. > > > >"Chang, Betty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi - > > > > > > > >I've looked through the docs, and it says the following: > > > >"Tomcat will be installed as a Windows NT/2k/XP service no matter what > >setting is selected." > > > > > > > >However, I never ran an installation program - I just unzipped a file. > >What do I run to install Tomcat 5 as a service? I don't see an install > >program. > > > > > > > >Please forgive if this was a really dumb question. I did try to scour > >through the docs -- but a lot of the stuff is on the older versions of > >Tomcat. > > > > > > > >Thanks > > > > > > > >Betty > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
