Hi, I'm running Tomcat 5.5.20 with an application built under Netbeans 5.5. The application works fine. I've found a number of things on the web regarding the issue of running as a non-root user, but none match my needs exactly. If someone could point me at the right documentation, or answer directly, I'd be most grateful.
Situation - I am installing tomcat and running it on port 8080. However, it is currently being started by the root user and I need to change that. If I just run the startup script as user 'foo', I get errors because it can't read various config files in the conf directory, can't write to the logs directory etc. As a hack, I changed the permissions on the config files from 600 to 644, and the permissions on the logs directory to 777. I also had to change the permission on the conf/Catalina/localhost directory to 777 and the server and manager.xml files therein to 644. After I did all that, I could start tomcat, deploy my .war file and run it, and in fact it all seems to work. However, during startup I get error messages like this (from the catalina.out file): ========= Apr 11, 2007 10:32:33 AM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost/jsp-examples is unusable. Apr 11, 2007 10:32:33 AM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost/balancer is unusable. Apr 11, 2007 10:32:33 AM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost/_ is unusable. Apr 11, 2007 10:32:33 AM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost/tomcat-docs is unusable. Apr 11, 2007 10:32:33 AM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost/servlets-examples is unusable. Apr 11, 2007 10:32:33 AM org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init> SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost/webdav is unusable. ============= Note that the permissions on /usr/local/Apache/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5 .20/work/Catalina/localhost are 777, but the directories it is complaining about (servlets-examples, webdav etc. don't exist... So my questions are: 1) Is there a simple way for me to configure the system so I can run the startup script as user 'foo' instead of 'root'? 2) If not, what is the hard way of doing it? :) Does changing the permissions where I did constitute a major security faux pas? I'm guessing it might, but I'm not 100% sure... 3) Do I need to worry about these error messages? My application seems to run in spite of them... Thanks in advance, nbc NAME: Neil B. Cohen (Verisign Inc.) PHONE: 703-948-4471 DOMAIN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************* * Murphy's Philosophy: Smile - tomorrow will be worse... * * * * O'Tooles Commentary: Murphy was an optimist! * ************************************************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
