Chris, Yes I certainly agree with that. The init.d script should sudo -u tomcat the catalina.sh script. I believe that I have fixed all of them to correctly run as the tomcat user.
- Josh On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Josh, > > On 11/17/12 11:37 PM, Josh Gooding wrote: > > Moved this to the user list instead of the dev group. Hmmm > > strangely enough, I tried this on a CentOS system, I believe it > > forced me to be root over the tomcat user. > > It all depends upon the file permissions of catalina.out and the > directory in which it resides. Deleting catalina.out certainly does > not require root access in all cases, but I'm sure there are cases > where root is required (e.g. because you are running Tomcat as root). > > > I can re-check that shortly. I know it recreates the file > > <catalina.out> next time without any discourse, if I run the > > startup script as the tomcat user. > > > > :: update :: I figured out WHY it forced me to be root. Someone > > *(may or may not have been me) ran the /etc/init.d/tomcat start > > script as the root user, not as the tomcat user which I believe > > would cause this behavior. > > You should write your /etc/init.d scripts in such a way that they run > under the proper user no matter who invokes them. For instance, if you > want to run Tomcat as 'tomcat' then your init.d script should probably > do "sudo -u tomcat $CATALINA_BASE/bin/catalina.sh start" or something > to that effect. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlCqmfEACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PD8BgCgrexYyS13j84h9SJx4S2/eZl1 > ZYUAn0N5SEsmWRJSuO8ezspEbYDl5+f0 > =7zTN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
