JAVA_HOME and tomcat
 

I'm running red hat 9, j2re1.4.1_03, tomcat 4.1..24 (well tring to)

Everything seems to be set just fine. But when I try:
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
I get the error:
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program

I defined JAVA_HOME every where I could I think of.
I have it defined as export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_03 in

/etc/profile.d/java.sh
/etc/profile
/home/michael/.bash_profile

when I try (from both a user and root):
echo $JAVA_HOME
I get
/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_03/

I don't see why it says it is not defined correctly. Any ideas??

Two things:

1.) Look at the startup.sh and check how
it tests for the java_home.

2.) My echo $JAVA_HOME doesn't produce
a trailing backslash, not that I'd think it should
matter, though...

Cheers,
Tink

I did some searching to find where exactly this error is occuring. When the startup.sh calls the setclasspath.sh for java the error is coming from

if [ ! -r "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/java -o ! -r "$JAVA_HOME"/bin/jdb -o ! -r "$JAVA_HOME/bin/javac ]; then
echo "The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly"
echo "This environment variable is needed to run this program"
exit 1

I don't know if maybe its an outdated version or what exactly that code does. I do not understand what the -r and -o are doing in that code.

I went to those directories. $JAVA_HOME/bin/jdb and $JAVA_HOME/bin/javac were not installed with my java. I'm assuming thats because I just istalled the jre instead of the sdk. Also -o is not a known option for $JAVA_HOME/bin/java ( I do not know if it is suppose to be or not according to the code).

In this case it's not meant to be
a parameter ... it's the OR in bash.

In other words, that thing checks
for read-permissions of those three
executables, and fails if you don't
have read-rights for either of them.

Which means that your assumption
that you need the jdk rather than the
jre is very likely to be right :}

Cheers,
Tink

The sdk solved the problem. Now onto configuration with apache...

Thanks for the help and quick response. Oh and thanks for reading the manuals!

Pleasure mate, anytime :}

Cheers,
Tink