-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 André,
On 2/26/13 12:02 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Hi. Do not top-post. Follow the example of the previous person who > answered your request. > > Elias Kopsiaftis wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Ben Stringer <b...@burbong.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 26/02/2013, at 12:14 PM, Elias Kopsiaftis >>> <yemi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I am running a webapp on Tomcat 7 and I am using log4j for >>>> logging. However, log4j cannot create a log file and Im >>>> getting a permission >>> denied >>>> error in the catalina.out file. I am runnning on linux, and >>>> made sure >>> that >>>> the current working directory(which I got by printing it from >>>> within the application), /var/lib/tomcat7, and all its >>>> subdirectories were in the tomcat7 group, which should give >>>> the web app permissions to create files, but its not working. >>>> any suggestions? >>> Hi Elias, >>> >>> That directory will also need "group write" permission set. >>> Best way to work through this problem is to "sudo" to the >>> userid that will be running tomcat, then try and create a file >>> in that directory from the shell. >>> >>> If it is the group write that is missing, this command will add >>> it: >>> >>> chmod g+w /var/lib/tomcat7 >>> >>> But that is not where you should be writing logs. /var/log is >>> a conventional place to keep logs. What is your log4j >>> configuration? >>> > >> Hi Ben, >> >> I didnt mention that but I did check that write permissions were >> on. Currently I dont have a log4j configuration. I am just trying >> to get > it to >> work. > > You need to check where log4j is (trying to) writing its logfiles. > That is part of your log4j configuration. Also, Elias, are you running under a SecuritManager? If so, you'll have to adjust permissions in your policy file. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlEs0CAACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCPgQCgucSbG2gpDLf9pLiivDtp05Lz 2UUAni1IaI1HPV66qjPTCs58ZDlxD4+w =YCvx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
