Don't start Tomcat in a new window.
In tomcat.bat, there's be a line like,
start "Tomcat" java org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat ...
Strip everything before "java". Then, when you run tomcat.bat, any errors
will show up in your current window.
-- Bill K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:03 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tomcat start error
>
>
> I installed the tomcat 3.2.1 with jdk 1.3 in Win98. The
> enviroment setup is
> PATH=%PATH%;c:\jdk13\bin
> set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk13
> set TOMCAT_HOME=C:\tomcat
>
> When I run "tomcat run", i just get an error message,
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/tomcat/startup/Tomcat
>
> If I run "startup", it just say "start a new window" and the
> new window just a
> blinking and disappear, as follwing message displayed,
>
> Including all jars in C:\TOMCAT\lib in your CLASSPATH.
> Using CLASSPATH:
> C:\TOMCAT\classes;C:\TOMCAT\lib\ANT.JAR;C:\TOMCAT\lib\JAXP.JAR;
> C:\TOMCAT\lib\SERVLET.JAR;C:\TOMCAT\lib\PARSER.JAR;C:\TOMCAT\lib\
> WEBSER~1.JAR;C:
> \TOMCAT\lib\JASPER.JAR;C:\TOMCAT\lib\webserver.jar;C:\JDK13
> \lib\tools.jar;
> Starting Tomcat in new window
>
> Your help is greatly apreciated.
> Thanks,
> Peter
>