newbie: How do I set the home directory

[Andreas Gruenhagen <an...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

Hello everybody,
we have got some problems configuring the tomcat correctly.
We installed a tomcat 3.3-b2 in a central nfs-directory. Several user should 
then start their own tomcat and obviously should use their own configuration.
So far I know this config-file is specified by passing a parameter '-conf 
<user-server.xml>' to startup.sh. 
Each user has to specifies his own working directory (including work/, conf/, 
logs/ and webapps/). in his server.xml (Attribute home="~/tomcat/"). 

Unfortunately, this does not work. Each time I trie to start the tomcat, it 
tries to write its log-entries to $TOMCAT_HOME/logs and not in my own
directory.
Therefore my question: How do I define a working directory different from 
TOMCAT_HOME ?

thanks in advance

andreas