If I can just provide you some feedback, at least if only to let you know that someone is reading and following this thread. :)
I'm am trying to do the same, not on Linux but Mac OS X. I'm very interested in this as well. That said, allow me to provide some comments on your post:
Julien Oix wrote:
I used to run a tomcat 4.1.18 rpm on a linux top box, where I put the TOMCAT_USER variable in a tomcat4.conf file ( nobody user in my case ...)
As an RPM, the tomcat4.conf file probably provides variables that are passed to the init.d scripts for startup and shutdown.
Now i try to upgrade to 4.1.29 full archive (jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29.tar.gz) and I didn't see any doc's on configuring this variable ..
As noted, the tomcat4.conf file is a Linux convention, likely for convenience. This file is not going be in the binary distribution of Tomcat from Jakarta.
I would like to request a copy of both the conf file and the init.d script loaded by the RPM. It may provide clues valuable in your quest and my quest on Mac OS X.
In Mac OS X, similar to the init.d scripts, a script is placed in a StartupItems folder and executed as root. However, as one might guess, this results in the process being owned by root. I have not found a working method of changing this, including, as you suggest below:
Is the only solution to execute the startup.sh script as the running user ? ( the command line under a root session could be : su - nobody -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh )
Thus, the reason I request the conf and init.d script files. Valuable clues may be found in each that could help us both.
Another problem:
I start tomcat with the method up in the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # su - nobody -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat/temp Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/java/java [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ps -aux
--> gives the process ran by nobody ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # su - nobody -c $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh Using CATALINA_BASE: /var/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /var/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tomcat/temp Using JAVA_HOME: /usr/java/java Catalina.stop: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
...snip stacktrace...
And the tomcat processes are always running ...
Any ideas ? ( i added the correct env in /etc/profile for every user)
I'm not sure why you would not be able to stop the process as started. Hmmm...
Look forward to hearing from you and others.
Warmest Regards, Tim
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