Thus the request for clarification on what our good friend Scott means by 
'completely'.  If access to writable disk is not available, the whole shootin' match 
is off...

I think we agree, we just said it in different ways ;-)

-chris

> 
> Howdy,
> Note, however, that all FileLoggers have a configurable 
> directory.  The
> workDir for host and context is configurable as well.  The
> system.out/system.err destination is set to
> $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out in 
> $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh and can
> be changed at will.
> 
> So a more accurate answer might be:
> - You need to modify the above in your server.xml and 
> catalina.sh before
> burning your copy of tomcat to CD
> - Whatever directory you use for your logs and workDir (which 
> is required
> by the servlet spec, as I said earlier) needs to be off the 
> CD-ROM, but
> accessible and writeable.
> 
> Yoav Shapira
> 
> 
>  \On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Halstead, Chris wrote:
> 
> > Clarify 'completely'.  If you have no access to writable 
> disk you'll be unable to produce logs or persist context data 
> under ./work.  I suppose that you could do some fancy stuff 
> with a RAMdisk, assuming that you are running on an OS that 
> supports this.  With an out of the box binary set you 
> wouldn't be successful...catalina.sh will fail when it can't 
> create ./logs/catalina.out.
> >
> > -chris
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: samckins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:30 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: running tomcat from CD
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a way to run Tomcat completely off of a CD-ROM?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Scott
> > >
> >
> 

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