I run Tomcat in a Solaris 10 SPARC machine using jsvc through a init script.
jsvc is started by root, but I specify the "-user" option to change to the "application" user. I use the option "-outfile" and "-errfile" to specify where to direct stdout and stderr, "catalina.out" and "catalina.err" in my environment. I am getting the following log files: # ls -l -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 15:23 admin.2011-08-03.log -rw------- 1 root root 7606 Aug 3 15:26 catalina.2011-08-03.log -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 15:23 catalina.err -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 15:23 catalina.out -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 15:23 host-manager.2011-08-03.log -rw------- 1 root root 126 Aug 3 15:27 localhost.2011-08-03.log -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 3 15:23 manager.2011-08-03.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 application svcjava 93760 Aug 3 15:27 servicelog As expected, "catalina.out" and "catalina.err" are owned by root. I minimize any output to these files. Also as I expected, the logs of my webapp ("servicelog") is owned by the "application" user and it is created with permissions 664 (since I specify the umask 002) But, why are the other logs produced by Tomcat owned by root ? Isn't the whole JVM changing to the "application" user? Is there a way to have these logs also owned by "application" user whenever they get created? The only difference I am aware of is that Tomcat (catalina), the manager and host-manager webapps use JULI, while my web app uses Log4j. Is JULI running before jsvc switches to the "application" user? -Jorge --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org