don't know about solaris too much, but the exception to me sounds as if there's already an instance of tomcat running which is listenig on port 8080. Port 8080 is the default port tomcat will listen to. So, if you start tomcat and then start another instance, both listening on port 8080, you will get the above error-message (exception) as soon as you try to start the second tomcat-instance.
try to see what's listening on port 8080: - su to root - type "netstat -lnp" - take a look what process is listening on port 8080 happy new year! greg -- what's puzzlin' you, is the nature of my game gpgp-fp: 79A84FA526807026795E4209D3B3FE028B3170B2 gpgp-key available @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de:11371 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]