Ben
Thanks for that.
I think that what I want to do has moved along a bit. I want to have
these programs - Tomcat & MySQL - start up when the computer is
started, even when no-one is logged in (ie, run the thing as a mini
server). Therefore I don't think that I can use user-specific env
variables, as there may not be any users logged in. (I also want to
see if the machine can be set up to run completely headless.)
I've found a document that gives the following syntax for defining
environment variables in the startup script for a program:
export VAR_NAME="var_value"
so I'll go back to your idea of defining the variables I need in
Tomcat startup script, startup.sh. Then I'll look for a way of
calling that from the system startup scripts.
There are a lot of differences between OS X and Linux/Unix, aren't
there? I was looking for the familiar rc.d architecture, but this
doesn't exist in OS X. Everything is controlled from /Library,
apparently...
Tom
On 17 Jan 2006, at 06:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI
Netinfo Manager in utilities is the OS X way of setting environment
variables for users or groups.
Checked this morning....
On 16 Jan 2006, at 15:20, Tom Burke wrote:
Ben
Actually, that doesnt't seem to work. I've tried variations of set
and setenv, and with & without an '=' sign in there. but no dice.
However, I have found that all I need to do to set it at the
command prompt is this:-
"setenv JAVA_HOME /path/to/java"
and Tomcat then runs.
Incidentally, I've also found that the best path to use for the
Java SDK is /Library/Java/Home, which is a link to a 'real' Java
directory.
Tom
On 16 Jan 2006, at 11:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I know there is a way of specifying within os x and i suspect it
is in the thing
I can't quite rememver the name of (directory services) in
utilities..but you
can alter /etc/profiles if you want it permanent for all users,
however:
Open your terminal emulator and find the tomcat startup script,
usually
start_tomcat.sh or startup.sh.
using your favourite text editor (my case vi) open it up and
enter somewhere at
the top
set JAVA_HOME = "/path/to/javadir"
export JAVA_HOME
then save.
HTH
Ben
I need to define an environment variable; specifically,
JAVA_HOME. (I'm installing & configuring Tomcat). I'm sure this
is a simple question, but I don't actually know how to do this.
The problem is that after having installed Tomcat, it won't
start (using ..../bin/startup.sh) because it says:
'The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined. This
environment variable is needed to run this program' And indeed
$JAVA_HOME doesn't exist.
Background: I've mainly installed Tomcat on Windows systems
before, and in practice JAVA_HOME is created for you when you
install Java. However I'm told that Java is pre-installed in OS
X, so there's no opportunty to define Java parameters during
installation. I know Java is indeed installed as running the
terminal command 'java -version' gets some sensible responses.
Tom Burke
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