Hi,
to help cut through the apparent confusion, all you need to do is:
1) change ownership (recursively) of your tomcat install dir to ( if your user account that will run tomcat is called for example "tomrunner" ) tomrunner.tomrunner.
2) change to that user and decompress and build jsvc (in the ${tomcat.installdir}/bin dir) according to the straightforward instructions included.
3) change ownership of the resulting jsvc binary to root.root (root initially runs jsvc which then changes the user to your tomrunner)
4) build yourself a decent startup/shutdown script appropriate to your distro and your preferences.
Read The Fine Manual at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/setup.html
for all that you'll need to know. jsvc -help will also spit out it's allowed parameters that you can play with.
5) go have fun building web-apps. ;-)
Kevin
Thanks so much, Kevin for clarification. Before, it had not been evident to me that making jsvc required to do it as the user to which jsvc will change. Also, I had all files in $CATALINA_HOME owned by root:root.
Now, as I changed $CATALINA_HOME/conf to ownership tomcat:tomcat and after making $CATALINA_HOME/work readable/writable by that user, everything works fine.
Thanks for your help again -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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