Tomcat Startup Problem

[Christoph Kiefer <kiefer ifi unizh ch>]

Hi,
I am trying to run Tomcat 5.0.X on Fedora Core 2.

When I am entering

./bin/jsvc -user badertscher -Djava.endorsed.dirs=./common/endorsed
cp ./bin/bootstrap.jar:./bin/commons-daemon.jar
-outfile ./logs/catalina.out -errfile ./logs/catalina.err
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

from $CATALINA_HOME I am getting the following errors:

jsvc.exec error: Cannot find daemon loader
org/apache/commons/daemon/support/DaemonLoader

jsvc.exec error: Service exit with a return value of 1

Does anybody have experience with that? What am I doing wrong? The class
path clearly specifies the DaemonLoader class.
I have no clue, what is going wrong :((

Best,
Christoph