Arno, can you try with these parameters : --StdOutput out.txt --StdError err.txt and check if this writes anything to these files (I don't bet a pence on this but let's try) ?
Taken from the doc : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html 2015-10-02 17:52 GMT+02:00 Arno Schäfer <arno.schae...@sqs.com>: > André, > > > Maybe it is not only the version of Tomcat that has changed, but also > the machine/OS on which > > you do this ? Maybe the user under which you execute this command does > not have the > > required > > privileges, at OS level on this machine, to do this ? > > On the same machine/OS it work's with tomcat 6. > > > > Maybe the user-id *to* which you are trying to set the Tomcat service, > does not have enough > > privileges to "run as a Service" ? > > (In the services.msc applet, it would ask you interactively to grant > these privileges first, but > > maybe the command-line tool cannot do that). > > Like I said in my first mail, I install it as an local administrator and > the service was registered and I am able to run it under the local system > account. > And also if I fill in the user data manually, what I used in the > tomcat7.exe call, I am able to start and run the tomcat server, so missing > privileges shouldn't be the problem. > > Regards > Arno > >