On 10/28/05, Preston Crawford <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've found about a dozen different ways to skin this cat (no pun > intended). Everything from creating a script in /etc/init.d/ to using > jsvc. I was hoping someone out there, those of you out there who run > Tomcat in this manner, how did *you* set this up? I can't seem to get it > right. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or even direction to an > authoritative document. > Couple things you can do here. I would get the java-sun nosrc.rpm from jpackage ( http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.6/generic/SRPMS.non-free/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.09-1jpp.nosrc.rpm ) and the java sdk bin from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html (yes 1.4.2 is older, but it's what the rest of the stuff I'm going to link you to is built against. It's easier this way) after that, set up an rpmbuild environment ( http://rpm.org/hintskinks/buildtree/ ) put the java sdk bin in SOURCES, and rpmbuild --rebuild the java nosrc.rpm Install the java rpms this built, which should be located in RPMS/i586 After all that fun, go to redhat's ftp site, and get the iso for the applications server. It's a free download, no license costs... (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/RHAPS2/) get the one for your particular arch, extract the contents to a local directory, and run createrepo on it to generate some yum information for it. then add an apps.repo file to your /etc/yum.repos.d/ with contents similar to below: [apps] name=Application repo baseurl=file:///export/mirror/apps gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 Import the GPG-RPM-KEY on the applications iso, and then 'yum install tomcat5". There will be several tomcat type rpms. The usual yum commands will show them. -- Jim Perrin System Administrator - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center