Alan and Mark,
Thanks to you both. Our /opt/projects/dspace directories are owned by the
tomcat user. I wasn't involved in the initial implementation of DSpace on
our server, so I don't know why the dspace user exists. Right now the
dspace user owns the /opt/projects/freelib-djatoka directory tree, which as
I understand it is the jpeg2 converter code that produces display copies of
TIF files that go into dark storage. Those directories have read+execute
access set for all users, so I can't think of any reason that filter-media
would need to run under the dspace account to create jpeg2 files. For now,
I've deleted the crontab entries for the dspace account. When version 7 is
out of beta, I'll see if we still need the dspace account at all when we
upgrade.
Thanks, Kerry
On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 7:57:15 AM UTC-5 Mark H. Wood wrote:
> 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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