I hope I could have come back a little bit earlier.

Mac OS X Server 10.6 runs Tomcat using launchd, so in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons you can find org.apache.tomcat.plist, which contains the settings the OS runs the default Tomcat server. When booting the OS try run Tomcat as a daemon as instructed by the plist. The Server Admin changes the value of the plist.

Here I attach 2 files, one is the working version of the plist on my Mac OS X Server 10.6, the other is the wrapper script for launchd to call Tomcat. Please put the script in /Library/Tomcat/bin, make sure it's owned by _appserver:_appserveradm with file mode 775 (well at least this works for me). You can see that the "-Djava.awt.headless=true" that Tim mentioned is included.

So you can:

1. Stop Tomcat by checking off the Tomcat checkbox in the web service pane of the Server Admin, save;

2. Replace the attached files and check permissions;

3. Start Tomcat by checking the checkbox and save;

4. Watch the console log to see if there is any odd things.

I would then recommend that you deploy IPT using the tomcat app manager, by this way you can avoid some possible permission issues.

Let me know if this works for you.

Cheers,

Burke