I'm not much of a UNIX person, but I remember reading about the "allowLinking" attributes in Context and DefaultContext. Not sure that they're applicable, but I figured I'd mention them in case they were and you hadn't seen them.
Jay -----Original Message----- From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:46 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: context configuration file being overwritten On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Milt Epstein wrote: > Hi there. I'm using tomcat 5.0.18 basically out of the box. I set > up a webapp in a directory outside the <tomcat>/webapps directory. > So I created a context configuration file for the webapp, and put a > symbolic link to it in <tomcat>/conf/Catalina/localhost. This was > all per the documentation and the source. > > So, everything starts up fine, the webapp works, but the context > configuration file gets overwritten/truncated (i.e., it is then an > empty file). The same thing happens with 5.0.16. This doesn't > happen when I place a copy of the actual configuration file in that > directory, instead of a symbolic link. (I'm trying to place as > little as possible in the tomcat directory structure, to ease > upgrade issues and such.) > > Any idea what's going on here? I searched all over and couldn't > find any discussion of a similar issue. > > FWIW, my system is Linux (Fedora Core 1). > > Thanks! Hate to repost this unchanged, but I'm surprised this hasn't gotten any response. Any Tomcat developers on the list? Am I missing something about how context configurations files are supposed to work? Because otherwise this looks like a bug. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
