When it's running as a service, Tomcat gets the location of Java from the registry, not from JAVA_HOME. You can change this and other settings using tomcat4w.exe. -- Len
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:28, Thangavel Sankaranarayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all , > > I have a tomcat 4.x version (Perhaps it is a old version ,it is in > production and we cant upgrade as of now). > > It is running as a window service in Windows2000 server. > in the service icon i can find the path to executable: > > > C:\Products\Apache Tomcat 4.1\bin\tomcat.exe > > My doubt is ,does tomcat.exe needs JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME defined to run > tomcat in this case as we are not starting tomcat using Startup.bat or > Catalina.bat. > > If so,In my system i couldn't find any environmental varible set for > JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME... i can find only CATALINA_OPTS in it. > > It is also not defined in any of the .bat file as well...please help me on > this.thanks > > > > > > Regards, > Thangavel Sankaranarayanan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]