Installing jakarta tomcat on mac osx

Question

Hi -
I am following along with this tutorial http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/tomcat1.html. I am stuck at this point Now you can create a file called ~/bin/start_tomcat with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
And a file called ~/bin/stop_tomcat with these contents:[I/]
#!/bin/sh
export CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh
Finally, you must make these files executable:
liz@localhost:bin> chmod ug+x start_tomcat stop_tomcat [code/]
I am not sure where the bin dir is, and the error message I get is No such file or directory, or zsh: permission denied: start_tomcat. All help is appreciated.
Thanks!
-c

Answer 1

Don't know whether I'm teaching you to suck eggs here - apologies if this much is obvious to you.
The pathname of the file you are trying to create is prefixed with the tilde character ( ~ ). On Unix-type systems, tilde equates to your home directory. So for instance if, when you log on, you are placed in a home working directory called /home/javacph, then the pathname ~/bin/start_tomcat equates to:
/home/javacph/bin/start_tomcat
That's where you should create the file.