Hi, prior to this new installation, i had not used symbolic link, but i did untar package in folder /Library/Tomcat: the result was always the same: no startup.
I checked the permissions in the $CATALINA_HOME/bin, which i show below: macmac:bin sandro$ pwd /Library/Tomcat/Home/bin macmac:bin sandro$ ls -l total 848 -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 22110 9 Mar 18:06 bootstrap.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 sandro admin 2374 9 Mar 18:06 catalina-tasks.xml -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 15582 9 Mar 18:06 catalina.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 9341 9 Mar 18:06 commons-daemon.jar -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 1624 9 Mar 18:06 digest.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 sandro admin 74398 9 Mar 18:06 jsvc.tar.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 4114 9 Mar 18:06 setclasspath.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 1563 9 Mar 18:06 shutdown.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 1956 9 Mar 18:06 startup.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 26484 9 Mar 18:06 tomcat-juli.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 sandro admin 241274 9 Mar 18:06 tomcat-native.tar.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 3459 9 Mar 18:06 tool-wrapper.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 sandro admin 1567 9 Mar 18:06 version.sh And trying to start Tomcat, i get the following logs: macmac:bin sandro$ ./startup.sh && tail -f ../logs/catalina.out Using CATALINA_BASE: /Library/Tomcat/Home Using CATALINA_HOME: /Library/Tomcat/Home Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Library/Tomcat/Home/temp Using JRE_HOME: /Library/Java/Home Using CLASSPATH: /Library/Tomcat/Home/bin/bootstrap.jar at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.<clinit>(Bootstrap.java:55) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader.findClass(Launcher.java:244) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:315) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:398) ... 1 more Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/juli/logging/LogFactory at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.<clinit>(Bootstrap.java:55) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.juli.logging.LogFactory at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader.findClass(Launcher.java:244) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:315) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:250) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:398) ... 1 more Same if i run sudo ./startup.sh && tail -f ../logs/catalina.out. For completeness, rewrite which version use: TOMCAT: 6.0.26 JAVA: java -version java version "1.6.0_17" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04-248) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01-101, mixed mode) Java is already on Mac. ANT: already installed on mac: version 1.7.1 How can i fix this? What could it be? Please help me. Many thanks in advance 2010/6/3 Bob Hall <rfha...@yahoo.com> > Sondro, > > --- On Wed, 6/2/10 at 2:57 PM, Sandro Gallo <sandro.gallo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > TOMCAT version: 6.0.26. > > > > java -version > > java version "1.6.0_17" > > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04-248) > > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01-101, > > mixed mode) > > The version of Java is already on Mac. > > > > I installed Tomcat by following this step: > > 1. download from site, > > 2. create folder /Library/Tomcat, > > 3. untar file in this new folder, > > 4. create simbolic link from > > /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.26 to > > /Library/Tomcat/Home, > > 5. create env variables CATALINA_HOME, JAVA_HOME. > > > > All files in CATALINA_HOME/bin have exec permission. > > Check the permissions of bin/tomcat-juli.jar; it needs to be readable by > the user that is running tomcat. > > And try running Tomcat without the "benefit" of the symbolic link or > setting CATALINA_HOME: > > $ export CATALINA_HOME= > > $ /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/bin/startup.sh > > - Bob > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >