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Where is /usr/share/zoneinfo specified?

We are adding timezone support to our Ubuntu application. The time zone info on my machine is in /usr/share/zoneinfo. Is it always in that directory? If so, where is that specified? If ...
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Deploying war files in tomcat6

I am using tomcat5.5 for a long on Ubuntu servers 8.10 and 9.10 and /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/ is the path where I place my .war files and access them on the browser over network. On a sytem I've ...
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What are “$PATH” and “~/bin”? How can I have personal scripts?

What is $PATH? How can I have commands/programs which are only available for me? I have seen this path ~/bin mentioned before, but what is it used for, and how do I use it?