On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Markus Schönhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Zemian Deng wrote: > > > >> When setting up tomcat during boot startup on a linux/unix, is there > more > >> advantage using jsrv that comes with Tomcat as describe here: > >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/setup.html > >> > >> VS > >> > >> Just a plain shell script that calls catalina.sh ? > > > > With jsvc Tomcat is able to bind to privileged ports (for example 80, > > 443) and drop root privileges right afterwards. > > If you just use the shell scripts, you'd have to run Tomcat as root if > > you'd want it to bind to privileged ports[1]. > > > > There is one other (usually small) advantage to jsvc. With jsvc, the > shutdown port isn't used, so only root can shutdown/restart Tomcat. With > the scripts, anyone with physical access to the machine can shutdown > Tomcat. ASWSOME!!! Great to know this one! Thank you both for the information! > > > > Regards > > mks > > > > [1] OTOH, making Tomcat *accessible* through a privileged port doesn't > > necessarily mean that Tomcat has to *bind* to this port. Another > > possibility to achieve this is, for example, to use netfilter or > > something to redirect traffic from a privileged port to the > > non-privileged port that Tomcat listens on. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Sweet - a Scala web framework: http://code.google.com/p/sweetscala
