Re: Tomcat 5 and 6 Security advise

2007-07-26 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:24:28PM +0300, Peter Stavrinides wrote: > It makes for interesting reading, however it was written for Tomcat 4... > how current is it?? and nothing is mentioned about the benefits of > running Apache with Tomcat for securing Tomcat in a purely Java > environment, plea

Re: Tomcat 5 and 6 Security advise

2007-07-26 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 10:51:01AM +0300, Peter Stavrinides wrote: > Hi all, > > I need some advice with regards to Tomcat security, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tomcat/chapter/ch06.pdf - To start a new topic, e-mail: users@t

Re: Server Security

2007-07-26 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Len Popp wrote: > Yes, you can run Tomcat on port 80. Some OS's (Linux, UNIX) require > the process to have root privs to use port 80. Why not run it on 8080 as the _tomcat user, and use the packet filter to redirect the incoming port 80 traffic to port 80

Re: tomcat-4.1 & kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
he build process though. OK. Still, I did have kaffe, jikes and tomcat working on Debian, so I'm not convinced that there is a problem with the apps, just in the config of them. Unless there are no other takers, thanks for t

Re: tomcat-4.1 & kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:37:21AM -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > Not an option: Sun does not release a JKD for BSD. > > If you can upgrade to Tomcat 5.5, you only need a JRE, not a JDK, Oh? That's a new one on me. I thought that JSP's are complied at run time. I have jikes installed. >

Re: tomcat-4.1 & kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:06:39AM -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > From: Craig Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: tomcat-4.1 & kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: > > Attribute must be readable or writable > > > > I have a bog standard tomcat-

tomcat-4.1 & kaffe; IllegalArgumentException: Attribute must be readable or writable

2007-07-25 Thread Craig Skinner
mcat-4.1.31/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start TIA for any pointers, -- Craig Skinner | http://www.k