How to Set Your Environment

Being able to access the BEA Tuxedo executables and data libraries is essential to the job of managing a BEA Tuxedo application. For example, the commands needed to start up or shut down an application are located in $TUXDIR/bin on a UNIX host machine, and in %TUXDIR%\bin on a Windows 2000 host machine.

On a UNIX host machine, set and export the following environment variables to set up your environment:

TUXCONFIG=path_name_of_TUXCONFIG_file
TUXDIR=path_name_of_BEA_Tuxedo_system_root_directory
APPDIR=path_name_of_BEA_Tuxedo_application_root_directory
PATH=$APPDIR:$TUXDIR/bin:/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$APPDIR:$TUXDIR/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export TUXCONFIG TUXDIR APPDIR PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Replace the substitutable strings (italicized) with the absolute pathnames appropriate for your installation.

On a Windows 2000 host machine, enter the following commands at the command prompt to set up your environment:

set TUXCONFIG=path_name_of_TUXCONFIG_file
set TUXDIR=path_name_of_BEA_Tuxedo_system_root_directory
set APPDIR=path_name_of_BEA_Tuxedo_application_root_directory
set PATH=%APPDIR%;%TUXDIR%\bin;%PATH%

Replace the substitutable strings (italicized) with the absolute pathnames appropriate for your installation.

Windows 2000 accesses the required dynamically loadable library files through its PATH variable setting. Specifically, Windows 2000 searches for dynamically loadable library files in the following order: