On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:18:26AM +0100, GOMEZ Henri wrote: > In tomcat 4.0 everything live under /var/tomcat4, but on my > Tomcat 3.3 rpm, I follow FHS by moving dirs in correct location. > You should really take a look at my spec file and patchs to > make Tomcat FHS compliant :)
I think the Tomcat 3.3 package is - and has been for at least half a year - FHS compliant, which directory should be moved to a different place? /var/tomcat4 doesn't look FHS compliant to me, that should be /var/lib/tomcat4 because package specific subdirectories are not allowed in FHS 2.2: <quote> Applications must generally not add directories to the top level of /var. Such directories should only be added if they have some system- wide implication, and in consultation with the FHS mailing list. </quote> I also think that Tomcat's work directory (for compild JSP pages) belongs to /var/cache and not /var/spool: <quote> 5.5 /var/cache : Application cache data 5.5.1 Purpose /var/cache is intended for cached data from applications. Such data is locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without data loss. The data must remain valid between invocations of the application and rebooting the system. </quote> > Note also that I use a tomcat user to make tomcat run, for > security reasons :) Fine, and the Debian package uses the same user as Apache (default: www-data), also for security reasons :) -- Stefan Gybas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
