Gotta disagree with you Troy.... A well managed system is one that is all RPMed... Nothing worse than application code splattered over a file system (what's that... you installed to /usr instead of /usr/local/app or /opt/app). Particularly when you have 100 odd servers... and you only spend a few hours a month on each.... I do believe this is why we have: http://www.jpackage.org/ :) Peace to all.... Cheers, Matt. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:04:38 -0500, Jim Bartus <jbartus at advance.net> wrote: > > Troy Engel wrote: > > As someone who deploys a lot of tomcat/mod_jk instances, I agree 100%. > > Certain things are better off non-RPM'd for easier up/down/crossgrades, > > and the java tools (jdk, ant, tomcat, etc) are great examples. > > > > -te >