Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

Thanks. I just tried out the command and got the list of users including tomcat. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Reading-and-writing-files-outside-tomcat-directory-tp26160054p26194539.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

noobie45 wrote: Thank you so much. I am absolutely new to Tomcat on Linux. I need to figure out what you mean by "user-id under which Tomcat runs". Every process on Linux is ran by a certain user. With command "ps -ef", you can list all the processes and users that run them (first column fr

Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

I used my ftp client (WinSCP) to change file permissions for the directory to R,W,X for others and now I am able to write the file outside the Tomcat directory. Thanks again so much. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Reading-and-writing-files-outside-tomcat-directory

Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

Thank you so much. I am absolutely new to Tomcat on Linux. I need to figure out what you mean by "user-id under which Tomcat runs". -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Reading-and-writing-files-outside-tomcat-directory-tp26160054p26180750.html Sent from the Tom

Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

The Tomcat is installed on my site under Debian. I think it's the standard version with directories in the usual places. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Reading-and-writing-files-outside-tomcat-directory-tp26160054p26180125.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing

Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

noobie45 wrote: I have an application whose class files are in /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes It uses the following line to write a file called java.php: FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream ("/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/java.php", true); It does this perfectly. Wha

Re: Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

ow me to do this, apparently for > security > reasons. But security does not really matter for me because this > application > won't be open. How do I read and write files outside the home directory? > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Reading-and-

Reading and writing files outside tomcat directory

Linux does not allow me to do this, apparently for security reasons. But security does not really matter for me because this application won't be open. How do I read and write files outside the home directory? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Reading-and-writing-files