On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:03:54PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > I think the subject says it all. > > I've set up my server and installed RHEL AS 3.0 on it. I'm beginning to > long for the days of M$, where all I had to do was run a <censored> .exe > file, and it ran. *sigh* > > Okay, I downloaded something that purports to be an "executable" from the > jakarta project, but the readme says that I have to have Java installed. > Okay, I couldn't find any java packages installed, so I tried "which > java", which showed a /usr/bin/java. Cool, so I try running it. I get > some text message stating that it's nothing but a place holder for some > other stuff. ack. So I try up2date java. no dice. I can't find the j2sdk > or jre or anything recognizable, and I'm afraid to download Sun's because > it might break whatever was installed by the installer! > > Has *ANYBODY* installed tomcat5 on a virgin RHEL AS 3 install? Is there a > coherent HOWTO anywhere? I've been googling and downloading crap for two > hours now, and I'm about at my limit. > > Thanks! > > Ben > I'd install the IBMJava2-JRE and IBMJava2-SDK packages from up2date. Then for each java-related symlink in /etc/alternatives, change the original link to point to the actual program. I imagine /usr/bin/java is just a symlink to /etc/alternatives/java which in turn is a symlink to some placeholder. If that's the case, change /usr/bin/java to point to /opt/IBMJava2-141/jre/bin/java. Do similar things for javac (except that this will point to /opt/IBMJava2-141/bin/javac -- not the jre directory) and all the java-related symlinks in /etc/alternatives. (I seem to remember problems running java as a symlink to a symlink to an executable, which is why I'm suggesting you change /usr/bin/java instead of /etc/alternatives/java) Check to make sure /usr/bin/java actually runs java like you expect, then set your $JAVA_HOME to /opt/IBMJava2-141 and try tomcat's startup.sh script again. I'm working from (distant) memory here, but I hope it gives you somewhere to start. Best of luck, Mike Wimpee -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
