In message <6.1.0.6.0.20040727135905.025f31a8@mail.speakeasy.net>, Laine Stump 
writes:
>At 12:06 PM 7/27/2004, Chris Wareham wrote:
>>>>     java -jar c07-sip-r2.jar -touri he@them.invalid -teardown -validcase
>>>>
>>>>Being a complete java idiot, I figured I could just install jdk from 
>>>>pkgsrc and I would get what I wanted, but that seems not to be the case. 
>>>>When I run the java binary in the jdk's bin directory, it says it 
>>>>doesn't recognize the -jar option.
>>>>
>>>>So what do I need to do to run .jar files?
>>
>>To the original poster:
>>
>>Which JDK are you using? The native one from pkgsrc is probably too old
>>(v1.1.8). I use the Linux JDK from lang/sun-jdk14, which works fine for
>>me, but it wont be of any use if you're not on an i386 platform.
>
>Aha! I had just looked for things starting with "j", so I missed the 
>sun-jdk package and installed the jdk-1.1.8 instead. It is missing the -jar 
>commandline option.
>
>I just removed it and installed lang/sun-jdk14. Now the -jar option is 
>there, but now whenever I try to run it (for anything other than just doing 
>"java -?"), I get the following error:
>
>   Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack 
>location
>   Error occurred during initialization of VM
>   Could not reserve enough space for object heap
>
>I'm running a more-or-less GENERIC -current kernel built from sources about 
>10 days ago (userland is the July 15 -current snapshot from 
>releng.netbsd.org). This is running in a VMWare client VM with 256MB of 
>memory allocated to it. Is there some option I need to put in my kernel 
>config? A missing library? 
>
'ulimit -d 262144' will get rid of the "Could not reserve enough space" 
problem.  The message about the thread stack is a warning; I don't know 
how to make it go away, but it doesn't seem to hurt, at least in the 
few cases I've tried lately.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb