Petr Sumbera wrote: > The original idea was to deliver /var/run/tomcat6 directory via > package so that tomcat could write into it. It was wrong.. > > As tomcat6 is started with 'webservd' credential it's not able to > write into /var/run. Therefore I'm proposing to change pid file > location to: > > /var/tomcat6/logs/pid Committed PID file
There's no way to get tomcat to start as root and setuid to webservd and/or drop all unnecessary privileges? Perhaps have the start method do the work? If not, then yeah, this is fine. Danek