"Eric B." <ebe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:h5um4f$jh...@ger.gmane.org... > "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org> wrote in message > news:4a7c9110.50...@apache.org... >> Eric B. wrote: >>> Is there a workaround for this, or just one of those things that you >>> have to >>> learn to live with? >> >> In catalina.properties, modify the following entry as shown: >> common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar >> >> then you can place log4j.properties in CATALINA_BASE/lib > > Another really strange result. If I delete the logging.properties in > CATALINA_BASE/conf, I get the following error msg: > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) > Could not find the main class: . Program will exit. > > Not quite sure why - I looked at the startup script and it is supposed to > ignore it if missing, so not sure why I would be getting the > ClassNotFoundException. So far, my workaround has been to use an empty > logging.properties, and tomcat launches.
After some more searching, I found this bug had already been raised and fixed in 6.0.19. https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45585 Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org