> > has anybody installed Java in order to run some Tomcat/Apache stuff
> > on NetBSD?
> >
> > to make it simple, i already chose i386 for this, but after
> > installing
> >
> > sun-jre14-2.9       Sun's Java(tm) 2 Runtime Environment 1.4.2
> > sun-jdk14-2.9       Sun's Java(tm) 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.2
> > jakarta-tomcat5-5.0.30nb1 The Apache Project's Java Servlet 2.4 and
> > JSP 2.0 server
> >
> > (besides other packages, of course) i'm not able to start tomcat:
> >
> > deneb# /etc/rc.d/tomcat5 start
> > Starting tomcat.
> > The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
> > This environment variable is needed to run this program
> >
> > the weird thing is that although the Java SDK (JDK) is installed i'm
> > not able to find something that looks like this on the machine...?
> 
>  	Have several production tomcat servers under sun-jre15
>  	(previously sun-jre14) on NetBSD boxes.

that's good to hear! :))

> 
>  	Try setting JAVA_HOME to /usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4
> 
>  	For reference, 'pkg_info -L sun-jre14' will list all the paths
>  	in sun-jre14.

i exactly did what ypu wrote. it doesn't work... i'll dig into this
again. maybe i should try jre-15, too...

> 
>  	I also have pkg_alternatives installed which gives me a java
>  	in /usr/pkg/bin/java
> 
> 
> -- 
>  		David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --

thanks,

timo