You brought up a good point. I sometimes have a stupid error in web.xml and this is not logged in the logfile. I would appreciate better logging mechanism for tomcat-start-up.
--- Michael Langan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > Apologies for bringing up perhaps the oldest error in the book but I'm > a newbie at this and have searched everywhere for the solution and can > get no satisfactory explanation. When starting up tomcat the following > message is written to the catalina.out file; > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/catalina/startup > /Bootstrap > > The version of tomcat I'm using is 4.1.12, running on a Linux RedHat > 7.2 server. I'm just trying to start up a single instance and have set > the CATALINA_HOME variable correctly. I have installed Java version > j2sdk1.4.1_01 and have also set the JAVA_HOME variable correctly. Still > no joy. Any ideas what to try next? > > Reply to me privately if you like to avoid cluttering up the list. > Many thanks, Mike. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > ===== Garrett Needs A Job __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>