Problems Stopping and Restarting Tomcat 5

[N8bak]

I recently installed Tomcat 5.0.28 on a RedHat 9 server and it was running fine up until a few days ago.... Now when I run "service tomcat restart" I receive the following error(s):

Stopping tomcat...
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat/temp
Using JAVA_HOME: /opt/SUNWappserver/jdk
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stopServer([Ljava.lang.String
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1581)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.stopServer(Bootstrap.java:334)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:427)

My thought is that a jar or class file is out of place or something is missing from the classpath. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

~N8

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon `em." - Twelfth Night, II:5

 

[N8bak]

The only way that I can stop Tomcat is to kill the PID, a restart then works fine. Additionally I've found that port 8080 is not running when Tomcat is up, although the server.xml appears to have it set up correctly. Help!

~N8

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon `em." - Twelfth Night, II:5