RE: Making Tomcat 3.2 A Service On Win 2000 ( using jdk 1.3.0_02 )

[Randy Layman <ra...@aswethink.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gary.dale@mail1.moh.gov.on.ca
> [mailto:gary.dale@mail1.moh.gov.on.ca]
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:50 PM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Making Tomcat 3.2 A Service On Win 2000 ( using jdk
> 1.3.0_02 )
> 
> 
> Are you sure there are no problems with jdk1.3.1?  The main problem I 
> found with 1.3.0 was that it shut down when you logged off. I 
> found the 
> same problem in 1.3.1. The "fix" is to add -Xsa to the execution line 
> that starts Java in Tomcat.

Works for me without any command line fixes.  I thought that the -X option
was added for some of the betas of 1.3.1.  Is it possible that you have an
"older" version of 1.3.1?

> 
> As for making Tomcat a service, I found the jk_nt_service.exe (zipped 
> up) in the jakarta downloads. I thought that was the standard way of 
> making it into a service. Is this what is causing the 
> shutdown problem? 
> ShouldI be using a different method?

You are correct.  The JavaService program does basically the same thing as
jk_nt_service, but it traps the OS signals and doesn't relay them on to the
JVM.

	Randy