Hi!
I am trying to write my own init script to tomcat 5 for Fedora Core 1
I have tryed to decode what the startup.sh, catalina.sh and setclasspath.sh
is doing, and I think that I have figured out some of it, but according to catalina.out
it isn't enought.


Could someone who knows how tomcat is support to start please tell me what I hacve done wrong?

I get this error message when I tries to start Tomcat:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap


My .conf file, witch is supposed to set the nessesary env variables looks someting like this:
# Where the tomcat installations lives.
CATALINA_HOME="/home/johan/download/tomcat"
CATALINA_BASE="/home/johan/download/tomcat"
CATALINA_TMPDIR="/home/johan/download/tomcat/tmp"


# Tomcat options. These are passed to Tomcat as-is.
CATALINA_OPTS=""

# Java settings. If you use Sun's JDK, you might want to add -server here.
JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03"
JAVA_OPTS="-server"


# Classpath settings. You migth add your custom classes here.
CLASSPATH=""

And the part of the init script, where the magic is suppose to happend:
# Get tomcat config options
. /etc/tomcat.conf

# Functions
start()
{
echo -n "Starting tomcat: "
# Adding stuff to classpath
CLASSPATH="$JAVA_HOME"/lib/tools.jar
CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/bootstrap.jar
CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH":"$CATALINA_HOME"/bin/commons-logging-api.jar


JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS="$CATALINA_HOME"/common/endorsed

# Starting Tomcat
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS $CATALINA_OPTS \
-Djava.endorsed.dirs="$JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS" -classpath "$CLASSPATH" \
-Dcatalina.base="$CATALINA_BASE" \
-Dcatalina.home="$CATALINA_HOME" \
-Djava.io.tmpdir="$CATALINA_TMPDIR" \
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap "$@" start \
>> "$CATALINA_BASE"/logs/catalina.out 2>&1 &


echo $! > $CATALINA_PID

        retun $RETVAL
}

Regards
Johan


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