> > hi,
> > 
> > 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...?
> > 
> > any help greatly appreciated -- thanks in advance,
> > 
> > timo
> 
> 
> I installed it just a few days ago. Seems to work fine. I copied the
> sample  rc.d startup file which came with the tomcat package, and
> added the line:
> 
> ulimit -d 262144
> 
> after the "TOMCAT_LIB=/usr/pkg/tomcat" line. 
> 
> I set JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile to make it more generally accessible. 
> I'm using sun-1.5 java though, not 1.4.

hi,

thanks to all your guys for your help, i have it up and running now :)

so the next question is: is it possible to run on non-i386/amd64
platforms without big hassles?

timo