On 24 March 2017 16:06:21 GMT+00:00, Jeffrey Janner 
<jeffrey.jan...@polydyne.com> wrote:
>I was re-reading the RUNNING.txt  to see why I had to copy
>tomcat-juli.jar to the CATALINA_BASE/bin directory instead of just
>having it run out of CATALINA_HOME/bin.
>It seemed annoying to me to have to copy it to all my  CATALINA_BASE
>instances every time I upgraded, but I thought I ran into problems not
>having it there.
>Then I ran into this bit of documentation:
>
>In CATALINA_BASE:
>
>* bin  - Only the following files:
>
>           * setenv.sh (*nix) or setenv.bat (Windows),
>           * tomcat-juli.jar
>....
>
>In CATALINA_BASE:
>
>* bin  - Only the following files:
>
>           * setenv.sh (*nix) or setenv.bat (Windows),
>           * tomcat-juli.jar
>
>So I guess my question is, can I really just leave it out of my
>CATALINA_BASE directory without causing any issues?
>I want to say I had issues with it not being there, but cannot recall
>what they were.
>And if there is no difference, why make the suggestion in the
>RUNNING.txt file at all?

You copied the wrong bits from RUNNING.txt

You can place the jar in CATALINA_HOME if you wish.

The historical reason for allowing both is if you want different 
implementations in different instances you need to put the right implementation 
JAR in CATALINA_BASE.

Mark

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