Tim Himali

Hi All,
I have Fedora Core 5 and have the following in .bashrc in my /home/trai:

JAVA_HOME=/home/trai/devtools/jdk1.5.0_06 CATALINA_HOME=/home/trai/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$CATALINA_HOME/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin export CATALINA_HOME export JAVA_HOME export PATH

When I do the "startup.sh" I get the following:

The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program

Any Idea Why is it complaining about the BASEDIR? What have I missed to configure to get this BASEDIR recognized?

Thanks.
[ April 18, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

Thanks for the informational links.
Any idea how I can change the color of the Terminal from while to Black?Alos how can I change the size of the cursor as the current cursor is rectangle and thick?
thanks.

Hi All,
I am a novice linux user trying to learn Linux. I have Fedor Core 5 installed and enjoying learning it. I have a few questions as to

[*]1. where do normally the downloaded files are placed linux?
Just create a folder in the home directory and download there? What's the convention?

[*]2. I would like to install Java, Tomcat and other development tools. Where do they normally installed? any folder I would like to or there are good practice as where they should normally installed?

Thanks.
Himali