On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote:

> If you take a fresh download and unzip it in a sub directory of your
> user account, will it run there?

As a reference point -- here's a fresh install on a Mac/Snow Leopard system:

ripple:~/Downloads$ ls apache-tomcat-6.0.26.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 hassan  staff  6123410 Mar 17 13:18 apache-tomcat-6.0.26.tar.gz
ripple:~/Downloads$ tar xfz apache-tomcat-6.0.26.tar.gz
ripple:~/Downloads$ cd apache-tomcat-6.0.26
ripple:~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.26$ export CATALINA_HOME=`pwd`
ripple:~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.26$ ./bin/catalina.sh run
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Users/hassan/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.26
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Users/hassan/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.26
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/hassan/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/temp
Using JRE_HOME:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home
Using CLASSPATH:
/Users/hassan/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.26/bin/bootstrap.jar
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal
performance in production environments was not found on the
java.library.path:
/usr/local/ImageMagick-6.4.1/lib:/Users/hassan/Library/Oracle/instantclient_10_2:.:/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:30 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:30 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 932 ms
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.26
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:30 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory docs
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory examples
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory host-manager
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory manager
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/20  config=null
Jun 3, 2010 10:57:31 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1384 ms

After confirming it basically works, I would normally cd out and move
the tomcat directory to /usr/local and set CATALINA_HOME to the
appropriate value.

HTH!
-- 
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroe...@gmail.com
twitter: @hassan

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