Did you try running tomcat with JSVC. It'll run it as a deamon with the user privileges of your choicde
On 4/11/07, Neil B. Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I didn't realize it could be that simple :) Thanks very much - I will give that a try... Much obliged, nbc On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 07:59 -0700, Hassan Schroeder wrote: > On 4/11/07, Neil B. Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Situation - I am installing tomcat and running it on port 8080. However, > > it is currently being started by the root user and I need to change > > that. > > > > If I just run the startup script as user 'foo', I get errors because it > > can't read various config files in the conf directory, can't write to > > the logs directory etc. > > Because having once run as root, all directories and files /created by/ > Tomcat are owned by root. If you reinstalled and initially started it as > user 'foo', everything would be owned by foo. > > So either reinstall, or change ownership of everything to 'foo'. > > HTH, --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
