Are you saying that when you run a command from console it works but when you put it into a shell script and try and run the script it doesnt work ?
Are you using the same command from console , did you try and do a ps to see if tomcat has started/not started ? Putting the entire command on one line shouldnt be an issue . -Sameer Patrick Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I can only copy/paste the contents from startTomcat.sh to the console, everything works fine. But when I run the command from the console startTomcat.sh, it gave me no error, however the ming/Q_21972914.html##> tomcat doesnot get started, I make sure the execute rights is assigned, etc. One thing is that I make all these strings into one single line in the startTomcat.sh, will this have any effect? ./bin/jsvc -jvm ming/Q_21972914.html##> server -Xdebug -Xnoagent -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,suspend=n,server=y -Djava.endorsed.dirs=./common/endorsed -cp ./bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile ./logs/catalina.out -errfile ./logs/catalina.err org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap Do I need to setup the environment variable? However I can run the command from the console without the environment setup either. Pat --------------------------------- All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.