I haven't tried it on such an old version of tomcat, but I would think jsvc from the commons-daemon project would work here.
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/daemon It essentially allows you to start tomcat as a privileged user long enough to grab the port and then drop back to a low privilege user for general running. --David EDMOND KEMOKAI wrote: > 80 is a privileged port on *nix systems, you'll need to run tomcat as > root > (generally not recommended). May I ask why you're still running tomcat > circa > version 3? > > On 2/21/07, Frank Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> We're still running 3.3.1 – We'd like to get rid of specifying the port >> 8080 >> in the http request like HYPERLINK >> "http://www.something.com:8080/"http://www.something.com:8080 and >> have it >> default to 80 (HYPERLINK "http://www.somehting.com/"; >> http://www.somehting.com >> only) but could not find any way. I tried to define port=80 in >> server.xml >> but tomcat threw exceptions. If you know a way, could you help ? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> >> >> >> >> Frank Nguyen >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.1/691 - Release Date: >> 2/17/2007 >> 5:06 PM >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.1/691 - Release Date: >> 2/17/2007 >> 5:06 PM >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
