From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 5 04:43:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E7916A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 04:43:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B76443FD7 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 04:43:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:42:53 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1AHMro-00003G-00; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:34:32 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:34:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Heath Volmer In-Reply-To: <002b01c3a32f$87451db0$6601a8c0@NB2> Message-ID: References: <002b01c3a32f$87451db0$6601a8c0@NB2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is Java/Tomcat on FBSD practical? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:43:01 -0000 On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Heath Volmer wrote: > Hi. I'm new to FreeBSD, my previous -nix experience coming from OSX and > Debian/Suse linux. I've been generally very happy with the performance > and relative ease of setup on my 4.8 system. > > My biggest problem has been Java. I've done the diablo 1.3 package and > java seemed to work (java -v), but when I install Tomcat it won't start. > I've done the same install on mac and windows with no problem. The > stack trace is completely alien to me and I can try to get it if it > would help. > > I'm basically wondering if running Tomcat or any other java on this > machine is realistic or not. > > Thanks, Heath Check on how up-to-date your system is. There were fixes that went into the base system post 4.8-R which are probably relevant. FWIW I've got tomcat running happily under the 1.3 and the 1.4 native ports on a -stable freebsd. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ (Things I've found in my attic, #2: A hundredweight of pornography.)