2012/5/31 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>: > > On 5/30/12 12:40 PM, chad.da...@emc.com wrote: >> I'm following the directions found in the RUNNING.txt file of the >> distribution, version 5.5.35. >> >> It says: >> >> "you can pass a '-Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_BASE' argument when >> executing the startup command" >> >> This doesn't work for me. I think I kind of know why but a couple >> of points of clarification would be useful. >> >> 1) This parameters is a pass through to the JVM correct? In >> other words, it means nothing in the startup.sh and catalina.sh >> scripts. >> >> 2) If the answer to number 1 is true, it seems that catalina.sh's >> execution of my $CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh will never get >> executed . . . > > If you have modified any of the startup scripts (except for > bin/setenv.sh), then undo those modifications. It appears that the > documentation is a bit confusing: there is no need to specify a > - -Dcatalina.base parameter anywhere. > > Instead, all you have to do is set the CATALINA_BASE environment > variable at some point before launching the startup script. Note that > you can't effectively set CATALINA_BASE in your > CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh because, well, CATALINA_BASE must already > be known in order to call it. >
Confirming the above. I updated 5.5 docs in r1344535. If we ever do a new 5.5 release it will be included there. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1344535 Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
