I don't know about Tomcat 5.5 specifically, but in Tomcat 5.0, startup.bat calls catalina.bat which calls setclasspath.bat. You'll see it runs the following, and if it can't find any of the files (probably because your JAVA_HOME is a JRE and not a JDK), it'll call "exit" and close your window:
if not exist "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe" goto noJavaHome if not exist "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\javaw.exe" goto noJavaHome if not exist "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\jdb.exe" goto noJavaHome if not exist "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\javac.exe" goto noJavaHome It's kinda hard to see the meaningful error message from this batch file when the window closes. I've always wondered if this is a bug? Jay [www.vtgroup.com] -----Original Message----- From: Bedrijven.nl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:02 AM To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: startup script not working Hi, I am downloading distribution Tomcat 5.5.7.zip and unzip it. When I try to run the startup script the CMD prompt window show up, throw an error and closes automatically. So Anyone know what the error could be?? There is no errorlog sterr or something else available. Please help!! Maarten --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]