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Hi Rick
I assume this is not a default install with the Red Hat Distro.
Some recent Redhat distro's come with Kaffe installed by default, see http://www.kaffe.org/ . The "java" executable in the default path is actually a script that starts the Kaffe VM, not a 'Sun Certified' JVM. This distinction killed me a few years ago when I was trying to set up Apache/Tomcat on a Redhat server. As the the Kaffe site states: "Kaffe is not Java" and "Kaffe is constantly under development, and lacks compatibility in many ways with the current releases of Java". When starting the installation I checked for a Java executable in the path, and ran a few test programs and all seemed good. This was my first mistake in assumed that I had a Sun Java SDK installed. I then set up Tomcat with Apache and started testing it with JSP and Servlets, and that was when the problems started. Some things worked and some didn't. So I then made my second mistake by assuming that the Apache/Tomcat install and config that was the problem, as in my own mind I'd already tested Java and that was fine. Took me three days tinkering on and off before I realized that I wasn't actually running a certified version of Java. So I went to the Sun Java site http://java.sun.com/, downloaded the free Linux Java SDK, installed it, and all my problems disappeared. Moral of the story "don't make assumptions", and use a Certified JVM to my knowledge most are free. Regards, Justin. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.