Hello Dan and thank you for your answer. I installed the JSVC tool as indicated in your document http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon
I copied the "jsvc" executable into "/opt/tomcat7/bin/". I also copied "/opt/tomcat7/bin/daemon.sh" into "/etc/init.d" and renamed it as "tomcat7". I added the following lines at the beginning of "/etc/init.d/tomcat7": ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat7 export CATALINA_HOME TOMCAT_USER=webadmin export TOMCAT_USER JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_67 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope I did all this the right way... ? Now, if I reboot, log in as root and launch the command: root> ps aux | grep tomcat7 I notice that there are two "jsvc.exec" processes, one run by "root" and the other one run by "webadmin" which UID is 1000: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- root 2841 0.0 0.0 16752 412 ? Ss 16:30 0:00 jsvc.exec -java-home /opt/jdk1.7.0_67 -user webadmin -pidfile /opt/tomcat7/logs/catalina-daemon.pid -wait 10 -outfile /opt/tomcat7/logs/catalina-daemon.out -errfile &1 -classpath /opt/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/tomcat7/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/tomcat7/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Dcatalina.base=/opt/tomcat7 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/tomcat7 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/tomcat7/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap 1000 2842 8.9 1.1 2434512 97444 ? Sl 16:30 0:03 jsvc.exec -java-home /opt/jdk1.7.0_67 -user webadmin -pidfile /opt/tomcat7/logs/catalina-daemon.pid -wait 10 -outfile /opt/tomcat7/logs/catalina-daemon.out -errfile &1 -classpath /opt/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/tomcat7/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/tomcat7/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs= -Dcatalina.base=/opt/tomcat7 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/tomcat7 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/tomcat7/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I "kill -9" the process owned by user 1000, another process is immediately created to replace the killed one. If I kill the process owned by "root", no new process is created. And if I kill the last remaining process, the one owned by user 1000, no new process is created either. I noticed that the $CATALINA_PID file contain the PID of the process owned by user 1000. I am wondering if this is normal behavior and if it is, why is it behaving like this? Thank you for helping. Best regards. -- View this message in context: http://tomcat.10.x6.nabble.com/How-can-Tomcat-be-started-at-boot-time-as-a-non-root-user-tp5023810p5023823.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
