> > Check your postgresql logs firstly. > > Nothing's showing up in the logs. I can see that postgres has > successfully started in syslog when I restart it. I'm not getting > anything at all being written to /var/log/postgresql even though > debug_level = 4 in /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf > > Does this mean that tomcat isn't even getting into the database? I can see these errors in /usr/local/tomcat/logs/catalina.out: Unable to instantiate DB connection pool. Technical error message: java.lang.NullPointerException A null connection was relinquished. Does that shed any more light on the matter? Regards, Phill