I installed Tomcat from the /usr/local DIR

I now have /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.6-src DIR

The startup command startup.sh = "command not found". If I include the path name before my command = "no such file or dir".

1st week on linux, have struggled all the way here. Can someone throw me a bone??

Thanks.

does "startup.sh" have the "x" (eXecute) bit set in file permissions ? (check with "ls -l startup.sh")
you can set it with the "chmod" (man chmod) command (chmod u+x startup.sh)

otherwise please post the first 5 lines of "startup.sh" here.

Go to that tomcat folder and try this.
$./startup.sh

make sure that u have the execution permits on starup.sh. If it gives u errors like don't have permission or something..then do

$chmod 755 startup.sh
$./starup.sh

I can't find startup.sh

Should it be in the /.../Jakarta-tomcat... DIR?

Would ls list it or do I need another command to list commands?

Thanks.

it should be in the tomcat directory. May be they now have changed the name of the startup script. Why dont you do a ls on that directory and put them here so we could see what are the contents there and guide you better.

Do this:

ls -l > abc.txt

then open the abc.txt file and copy its contents and paste em here.

total 331
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1246 Mar 24 09:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1229 Mar 20 14:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10080 Oct 8 10:16 BUILDING.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 8 10:16 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1264 Oct 8 10:16 OUTSTANDING-BUGS-4.0.4.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3084 Oct 8 10:16 README.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2358 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15022 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5413 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B3.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14787 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B4.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6969 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B5.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22213 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B6.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13160 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-B7.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14240 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-RC1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9417 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0-RC2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13024 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.1-B1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13170 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16611 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.2-B1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12091 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.2-B2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12351 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14764 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.4.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8881 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.5.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8841 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.6.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7599 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-NOTES-4.0.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2548 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-PLAN-4.0.1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2683 Oct 8 10:16 RELEASE-PLAN-4.0.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5955 Oct 8 10:16 RUNNING.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 24 09:30 abc.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3544 Oct 8 10:16 build.properties.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14237 Oct 8 10:16 build.xml
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 145 Mar 20 15:03 catalina
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 98 Mar 20 15:03 jasper
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 264 Mar 20 15:03 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 194 Mar 20 15:03 resources
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 209 Mar 20 15:03 service
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 147 Mar 20 15:03 tester
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9294 Oct 8 10:16 tomcat.nsi
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 176 Mar 20 15:03 webapps

Hmmm... you're missing the bin directory in Tomcat. That's where the startup.sh file normally resides.

You could download tomcat binary instead of src, couldn't you. There's probably ant build files in the directory somewhere that you could use to build tomcat but that would need ant installed.