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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Jeff Turner <je...@socialchange.net.au> on 2001/09/14 06:47:44 UTC

Env variables (Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat/src/shell tomcat.sh)

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:11:20AM -0000, costin@apache.org wrote:
>   ( well, I'm a lazy user as I never set TOMCAT_HOME, too many instances on my machine :-)

I think that's useful advice generally. If the startup script of your
app can automagically figure out the *_HOME directory, let it. A wrongly
set TOMCAT_HOME left over from a previous installation (or ANT_HOME,
etc) can cause lots of confusion.

--Jeff