Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-user-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 68483 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jul 2001 20:24:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 68476 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2001 20:24:22 -0000 Received: from smtp25.baruch.cuny.edu (150.210.155.201) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 20:24:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 126 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jul 2001 18:51:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mindspring.com) (150.210.151.46) by smtp25.baruch.cuny.edu with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 18:51:22 -0000 Message-ID: <3B5C8852.21922A6B@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:25:54 -0400 From: Peter Choe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org" Subject: how to let two user stop and start tomcat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N i am trying to set up tomcat so that two user (two accounts on an unix system) start and stop tomcat. both users are able to stop tomcat when it is running. but only one can properly start it. so, if i have two users, foo and bar, user foo can start tomcat using ./startup.sh and bar can stop it using ./shutdown.sh. but if bar tries to start it using ./startup.sh it throws the following: FATAL:java.net.BindException: Address already in use can anyone help? peter choe