We've been customizing the src rpm's available at: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0.1/rpms/
and the mod_webapp rpm at: http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/release/v4.0.2-b2/rpms/ to produce RPM's that our team feels are stable an logically install on Redhat 7.x. We've done a number of things to them. In mod_webapp: We fixed a WebAppMount directive placed in the httpd.conf file that was incorrect (should have been WebAppDeploy). We also check if ServerName is set in httpd.conf and attempt to resolve and add it if it is not. In the Tomcat RPM's We moved the install directory back to /var/tomcat/... because some of our installers for other software and Location definitions in Apache http.conf require it to be there...We also set the default ports back to that of tomcat 3.2. This makes sense because we never really saw a reason to run tomcat 3.2 and 4.0 together on the same machine. We thought if we were deploying our Software which uses tomcat4.0 it would be the only tomcat servlet engine running on a machine. We modified the Permissions on the webapps directory to give tomcat group users rights to edit files in it, where the /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat script didn't provide theses permissions previously. We altered the sleep hack in /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat to wait longer because the tomcat-apache connector needs more time to stop. This makes "restart" work (although somewhat slower). We tried to do all this while properly updating all the documentation in the src and nonarch rpm's. Our question is: Would you like these RPM's to make available via Jakarta? For us it would be beneficial if we could point our administrators/installers to an external persistent source which we didn't need to maintain for getting the external packages (like Tomcat4.0) that are required prior to installing our projects packages. Mark R. Diggory Software Engineer Harvard-MIT Data Center M-30 Littauer Center, North Yard Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 phone: (617) 496-7246 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our Project: http://thedata.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/thedata/ In Action: http://vdc-prod.hmdc.harvard.edu/VDC/index.jsp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
