> I would suggest that you always run tomcat as the tomcat user, and > make > developer and root start it as the tomcat user. > That can be easily done with a startup script instead of calling > $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh directly or whatever it is. > I would make sure that the directories all have the tomcat user as the > owner and group, and then add root and developer to that group.
To help in this situation, you can also use the group permissions. I set up umask to 002 and added a sgid bit to all the CATALINA_BASE directories. This way, tomcat user can always overwrite files even if they were created by another user. Regarding modifying startup.sh, I suggest you use a wrapper like I mentioned before, that manage all the environment variables and then call the out of the box startup.sh. Much more portable when upgrading tomcat. Hope this helps. François. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
