> If you use a third-party package for Tomcat (e.g. apt-get), you may be > seeing something coming from /them/. did you recently get any new > updates from Ubuntu or any other repositories you use?
I don't have a record of specific updates, but I run `apt upgrade` regularly and originally installed Tomcat using `apt`. I'll check with Canonical, then, I guess. Thanks for the info! Joel On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:56 PM Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > Joel, > > On 4/5/22 10:33, Joel Griffith wrote: > > I'm running a webapp under Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04. We run Tomcat as an > > ad-hoc system user who owns the Tomcat installation files. > > > > On Friday, the app stopped working. Over the weekend, I determined that > > the problem was that something had reset the ownership of the Tomcat > > installation files to the 'tomcat' user so that the webapp no longer had > > permission to access its own files. I had to spend a couple of days > poring > > through my notes to figure out what ownership was required for what files > > and then manually change everything that needed it back to our ad-hoc > user. > > > > Since this change affected only Tomcat files, I can only guess that an > > update from Tomcat altered the ownership of these files. Did any recent > > Tomcat update change file and folder ownership of the Tomcat installation > > to force them to the 'tomcat' user? > > The Tomcat distribution is just a tarball. When you untar it, you get > the current-user as the owner of the files. > > Tomcat has no installer for *NIX systems. > > If you use a third-party package for Tomcat (e.g. apt-get), you may be > seeing something coming from /them/. did you recently get any new > updates from Ubuntu or any other repositories you use? > > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
