On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:14:51AM +0100, Vera Mickael wrote: > > > Michael Koch a écrit : > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 03:40:30PM +0100, Vera Mickael wrote: > >> Package: tomcat5.5 > >> Version: 5.5.20-2 > >> Severity: important > >> > >> > >> The script should warn the user that has no rights for this > >> operation. > >> > >> As you may notice I use my own jdk package but I don't think > >> this has an effect on this problem. > > > > Which user do you mean? Its normal that scripts in /etc/init.d/ are > > executed by root. /etc/init.d/ is no exception from this rule. > > > > If thats not your problem please describe in more detail. > > I understand the script has to be runned by root and I > always use "sudo" command to run it. But as I launch this > command about 30 times a day, sometimes I forget the "sudo". > > Then the script stops and it's difficult to take control on > the terminal. The script doesn't check that the user has > rights to stop/start tomcat and it fails badly. If the check > was done, the script wouldn't stop like this. Maybe it would > display a warning message to the user.
I have added check and graceful abort. But I really you should use a shell alias if you really need to restart tomcat5.5 so much. I cant see a reason why this should be needed (with hot deployment) but I dont know your usecase. Thanks for your bug report. Cheers, Michael
