Have very limited experience of Linux or Tomcat. Not even really sure if this is a Tomcat issue or a Linux issue.
Main question: How do I run a Tomcat4 script from /etc/rc.d/init.d so that Tomcat starts automatically? Tomcat works fine when I run startup.sh as root. However, common sense and many passing references on the mailing list suggest that root is not the best choice. - What user do people normally use? - Should I create a user for the purpose? - What attributes and permissions should it have? - Is this related to the "tomcat" "tomcat" element in the default tomcat-users.xml? I read somewhere that tar preserves file and directory permissions when unpacking .tar.gz files. However, everything now seems to be owned by root (group also root), possibly because I unpacked it as root. So when I run Tomcat as tomcat, it dies of 'access denied'. I have changed the owner and group to tomcat for the logs and conf directories (so that Tomcat can rewrite tomcat-users.xml ???) but I am very reluctant to do too much of this without fully understanding why and what the downstream consequences might be. Most things now work but not the admin application. - What is the best practiced with regard to permissions? Tomcat documentation seems to stop firmly at startup.sh and shutdown.sh (unless I simply have not found the right page). I have found FAQs and tutorials that give sample scripts for various Linux distributions (none so far for Fedora) but none of them work if the user and permissions are not good. - Can anyone please summarise what I need to do? Best practice, even? :-) - Should it be documented? - Would all this go away if there was an RPM? - Is there an RPM? :-) Many thanks Robin Rigby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
