Hi Henry Use a command prompt to edit tomcat.bat in TOMCAT_HOME/bin
Find a line that looks like: set _STARTJAVA=start "Tomcat 3.2" "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" And remove the... start "Tomcat 3.2" Now run tomcat.bat start and it should start in the same command window. If it exits you'll still be able to see the errors... Hope that helps Donie -----Original Message----- From: Henry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 October 2001 19:02 To: Tomcat (E-mail) Subject: two questions Tomcat 3.2.3 runs wrong on my computer, and when it starts up, the new windows generates a bunch of errors and disappear before I was able to see clearly what the errors are. These are not logged in and log files. How can i start tomcat in the original window, or where can i find the run time error log? second question is how can i specify username/password for Oracle in the same way as MySQL does like below? connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority?user=test;password=test"