hi,

i have installed tomcat and java sdk successfully with help of uncle google (and with some hair still left on me head)

question:
i have a vmware setup running redhat 5.4 environment, i have set paths in my .bashrc as such:

export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/dtv/apache-tomcat-5.5.26
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_15
export PATH=$PATH:$CATALINA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME


question is that works all well and good when i login to the server and my profile executes, but i dont wanna login, i just wanna start my vmware login once and log back out, if the vmware linux enviro is still running, great, but if for some reason it gets rebooted (fuse goes out a lot in the house) i dont wanna deal with walking my kid thru how to start this service back up,

is there a better way to accomplish this so if server starts, so it sets the path environemnts for me without logging in?

** sorry if i sounded redundant there for a sec, still in headspin from the install **

thanks
x81kilo

Have you checked the Bash reference manual to try and figure out how Bash sources its configuration files?

Create a file
/etc/profile.d/tomcat.sh
put the exports in it
make it executable