Re: Servlet that needs ROOT access

2006-08-01 Thread Paul McMahon
I think I can limit a few of the ROOT actions required. The servlet application needs to do things like mkfs, vgcfgrestore, vgchange, mount and umount. On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:46, Peter Crowther wrote: > > From: Paul McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is it possible to run T

Re: Servlet that needs ROOT access

2006-08-01 Thread Paul McMahon
u can, simply copy > your web app structure (index.*, WEB-INF ) into root, or you can > modify the server.xml baseDoc pointing to / but not webapps, so when > you type xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080, it will start up your application .... > > Not sure whether it is what you are asking.. > > O

Servlet that needs ROOT access

2006-08-01 Thread Paul McMahon
Is it possible to run Tomcat as non ROOT (desirable as I see from FAQs/other threads), but have a servlet that needs ROOT access? Or is the solution to have the servlet application code running as a separate daemon outside tomcat, with some form of comms to tomcat servlet when tasks need to be