RE: Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Beckett
I can't tell how much easier it is to manage Tomcat installations (even small ones) with these two separated: Tomcat base install goes one place, your configuration and everything you need goes another. Upgrades are as simply as changing the CATALINA_HOME path, and downgrades (if necessary)

Re: Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-25 Thread Mark Thomas
On 25/02/2014 12:58, Paul Beckett wrote: I can't tell how much easier it is to manage Tomcat installations (even small ones) with these two separated: Tomcat base install goes one place, your configuration and everything you need goes another. Upgrades are as simply as changing the

Re: Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-25 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Feb 25, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Paul Beckett paul_beck...@outlook.com wrote: I can't tell how much easier it is to manage Tomcat installations (even small ones) with these two separated: Tomcat base install goes one place, your configuration and everything you need goes another. Upgrades are as

Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-24 Thread satish jupalli
Hi, What are the best practices for upgrading the tomcat given the fact that they are no direct security patches available. Specially with the environments where there are large instances of Tomcat servers running it is challenging to upgrade these servers manually in all the systems. Are there

Re: Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-24 Thread Mark Thomas
On 24/02/2014 09:20, satish jupalli wrote: Hi, What are the best practices for upgrading the tomcat given the fact that they are no direct security patches available. Specially with the environments where there are large instances of Tomcat servers running it is challenging to upgrade

Re: Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-24 Thread satish jupalli
Thanks Mark. That helped a lot. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: On 24/02/2014 09:20, satish jupalli wrote: Hi, What are the best practices for upgrading the tomcat given the fact that they are no direct security patches available. Specially with

Re: Tomcat upgrades/security patching best practises

2014-02-24 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark, On 2/24/14, 4:50 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: On 24/02/2014 09:20, satish jupalli wrote: Hi, What are the best practices for upgrading the tomcat given the fact that they are no direct security patches available. Specially with the