linux/tomcat woes

[Duane Douglas <dd...@mindspring.com>]

hi gang!

i'm a linux newbie, so please bear with me.  i'm running red hat linux 
6.2.  i installed apache 1.3.19 and tested it, so i know that its working. 
tomcat 3.2.1 is giving me problems.  i java 2se 1.3.1 (and tested it, so i 
know it's working).  i then un-tarred the tomcat tarball and set the 
environment variables from bash as follows:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.3.1
export TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat

i then typed in the following (from bash) from the tomcat/bin directory: 
./startup
some messages appeared on the screen, then bash appeared to hang (it didn't 
return to the prompt after a few minutes).  i didn't get a tomcat.log file 
so i can't figure out what went wrong.  can someone please help me 
troubleshoot this madness?

tia

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