On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 07:07:48AM -0700, Kerry Bouchard wrote:
> After adding a parameter to the filter-media command in our dspace user 
> crontab file and not seeing any difference, I realized that the tomcat user 
> on our system also has a crontab file with identical entries. As far as I 
> can tell, it's the tomcat crontab that is actually being used. Is there a 
> reason for the dspace user to have a crontab file when tomcat does?

I can't think of any.  But my question is:  is there a reason to have
separate users 'dspace' and 'tomcat'?  Unless you're doing something
fancy, I would just have an account for Tomcat and let DSpace's
files be owned by it.

The installation guide seems quite firm that there is a user named
'dspace', but that's not at all necessary.  What *is* necessary is
that Tomcat have read access to DSpace's configuration and web
applications, and write access to the logs, assetstore, upload
directory, etc.  So normally I just install Tomcat via the OS' package
manager and let the whole DSpace installation directory tree be owned
by whatever account the package manager created for Tomcat.

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