Yes, but the download page says that .tar.gz is recommended for Unix / Linux and .zip for Windows, IIRC.
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:41 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 April 2011 10:35, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > > i just noticed that users on a linux/unix system that unload tomcat7 > > from the zip file are going to have trouble running it since the bin/ > > scripts are not marked executable in the zip file. > > Unfortunately Zip does not support such attributes. > > > if tomcat7 is unloaded from the tar ball, then everything will work > > fine since the scripts are executable. but from the zip file, they > > aren't, which means someone who runs "sh bin/startup.sh" will get: > > > > Cannot find bin/catalina.sh > > This file is needed to run this program > > > > and that's because of this test in startup.sh: > > > > if [ ! -x "$PRGDIR"/"$EXECUTABLE" ]; then > > echo "Cannot find $PRGDIR/$EXECUTABLE" > > echo "This file is needed to run this program" > > exit 1 > > fi > > > > the catalina.sh script is there, of course, it's just not executable > > so startup.sh (misleadingly) claims it doesn't exist. > > Agreed, the message is misleading. > > > experienced linux users will probably notice what's going on > > immediately, but others might be thoroughly confused. > > > > rday > > > > -- > > > > ======================================================================== > > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://crashcourse.ca > > > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > > ======================================================================== > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Sauvez un arbre, mangez un castor !
