On Linux, if you make a symbolic link to the javaws directory, then attempt
to run javaws through the link, it does not work.  Only seems to happen in
bash shell.  Only happens when configuration file does not yet exist.

$ ln -s /scratch2/sbohne/j2re1.4.2/javaws ~/javaws
$ ~/javaws/javaws
Java Web Start splash screen process exiting .....
Bad installation. No JRE found in configuration file: No such file or directory

N/A

Requesting to fix for Mantis.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-11-27

In the javaws shell script we used 'bash' shell on linux to invoke the shell
to execute the script.  Unfortunately, by default bash does not resolve
symbolic links when the 'cd' command is used.  This caused APPHOME to 
be set wrong if javaws was invoked through a symbolic link on Linux.

The fix is to invoke bash with -P, causing symbolic link to be resolved to
the physical directory before cding to it.

>From bash man page:

              -P      If set, do not follow symbolic  links  when
                      performing commands such as cd which change
                      the current directory.  The physical direc¡
                      tory is used instead.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-12-04