> I'm also not sure where tomcat5 set JRE_HOME. Been searching and can't > find it. Maybe you should look for JAVA_HOME ... /etc/init.d/tomcat5 /etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5 That's all I can say - while I got tomcat4 running on RHEL3, and tomcat6 on CentOS6, I have a bit of a gap when it comes to CentOS5 and tomcat5, although the differences between 5 and 6 are much less than between 4 and 5.