> From: Varuna Seneviratna <varunaseneviratna@gmail.com>
> To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>; david.smith@cornell.edu
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: What is JAVA_HOME?
>
> On 3 May 2011 23:16, David Smith <david.smith@cornell.edu> wrote:
>> Depends on your OS and how you start tomcat (startup script or as a
>> service).
>>
>> --David
>>
>> On 5/3/2011 1:43 PM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
>>> On 3 May 2011 22:21, Caldarale, Charles R
> <Chuck.Caldarale@unisys.com> wrote:
>>>>> From: Varuna Seneviratna [mailto:varunaseneviratna@gmail.com]
>>>>> Subject: What is JAVA_HOME?
>>>>> What is the use of the Java Home directory to Tomcat.What are
> the
>>>>> files of the Java installation that Tomcat uses?I am asking
> this to
>>>>> determine the set of files and their Home directory which
> should be
>>>>> set as JAVA_HOME
>>>> Read the doc. To quote from RUNNING.txt:
>>>>
>>>> (1) Download and Install the Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE)
>>>>
>>>> (1.1) Download the Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE),
>>>> release version 6.0 or later, from
>>>>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
>>>>
>>>> (1.2) Install the JRE according to the instructions included with
> the
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> (1.3) Set an environment variable named JRE_HOME to the pathname of
>>>> the directory into which you installed the JRE, e.g.
> c:\jre6.0
>>>> or /usr/local/java/jre6.0.
>>>>
>>>> NOTE: You may also use the full JDK rather than just the JRE. In
> this
>>>> case set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to the pathname
> of
>>>> the directory into which you installed the JDK, e.g.
> c:\jdk6.0
>>>> or /usr/local/java/jdk6.0.
>>>>
>>>> - Chuck
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> How to set environment variables permanently.Without having to set
>>> each time it is needed to be used.
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> I am using Fedora 14 at the time if that is so what is the way to do it?
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One way to do this globally for Fedora 14 is to create a custom.sh file in /etc/profile.d.
Place the values in there.
For example:
JAVA_HOME=<where you installed the JDK>
JRE_HOME=<where you installed the JRE>
export JAVA_HOME JRE_HOME
This suggestion is taken from the comments in /etc/profile.
just my two cents . . .
/mde/
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