Problem starting Tomcat

[jayram joshi]

hello frens...
I am facing a problem starting tomcat
I am running a windows 98 machine
my jdk is in c:\java and tomcat at c:\tomcat
and heres my autoexe
PATH =%PATH%;C:\JAVA\BIN;C:\TOMCAT\BIN;
Set CLASSPATH =c:\java\lib;
set JAVA_HOME=c:\java
set TOMCAT_HOME=c:\tomcat
now whenever i try to run tomcat ..it exits without showing any error message.I am unable to find out the problem in my installation
your helpe is appreciated
Cheers
Jayram

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

You need to do a little more than this:
remove the semi-colon ; from the end
of your classpath line
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;c:\java\lib\tools.jar
Also, your JDK should be 1.2 or later.
Regds.
- satya

[William Brogden]

Open a MSDOS prompt window, change to the tomcat/bin directory and then execute startup.bat, that way you can see error messages. On win 98 you must increase the default space for Environment settings in MSDOS environment - use the properties dialog you get from right-clicking in the upper left corner of a MSDOS prompt window, memory tab, Initial environment setting. I use 3072.
The reason being that Tomcat sets a LOT of environment variables and needs the space.
Bill

[jayram joshi]

i am doing whatever been suggested
I removed the semicolon
I am using JDK1.3
and my initial environment is 4096..and still tomcat is not starting.Here is the dump which i get
C:\tomcat\bin>rem Start the Tomcat Server
C:\tomcat\bin>echo Using classpath: c:\tomcat\classes;c:\tomcat\lib\webserver.ja
r;c:\tomcat\lib\jasper.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\xml.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\servlet.jar;c:\ja
va\lib\tools.jar
Using classpath: c:\tomcat\classes;c:\tomcat\lib\webserver.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\jas
per.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\xml.jar;c:\tomcat\lib\servlet.jar;c:\java\lib\tools.jar
C:\tomcat\bin>start java -Dtomcat.home="c:\tomcat" org.apache.tomcat.startup.To
mcat
C:\tomcat\bin>goto cleanup
C:\tomcat\bin>rem clean up

so now please help me in starting tomcat

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