Yes Gerald, its a very bad idea and should never be done. As I mentioned, the easy way to solve this is simply to change all of the permissions with "chown" to the non-privileged user which runs Tomcat. Its easy, and avoids the problem of running as root.
Regards, Jason On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:34 AM, gerald thomas <gerald17...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Jason, > Bob always tell me it is a security risk but I was trying to figure out > Collins issue. Thanks again for the information. > > On Jul 28, 2016 9:13 AM, "Jason Pickering" <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Collins and Gerald, >> >> You should not execute "sudo ./startup.sh" as this means your Tomcat will >> run as the root user, which is generally a very bad idea. >> >> From the error, it looks like the user which owns the Tomcat directory >> does not actually have access to the logs. So you should "chown" all of the >> files to that user, and then start Tomcat up as a non-privileged user with >> something like "sudo -u dhis ./startup.sh". >> >> Regards, >> Jason >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:48 AM, gerald thomas <gerald17...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Collins, >>> Can you please use sudo ./startup.sh >>> Please share your output >>> >>> On Jul 28, 2016 08:36, "Knut Staring" <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Collins, >>>> >>>> Please use this mailing list: "dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net" >>>> >>>> It seems as though something has happened to the user you are using to >>>> run Tomcat. Make sure this Linux user has sufficient permissions. >>>> >>>> Knut >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Collins McAdoyo <collins.ad...@gmail.com> >>>> Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:55 PM >>>> Subject: Error when starting tomcat >>>> To: Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Team, >>>> >>>> Hi Team, my dhis instance was running well but since today it has >>>> started giving me errors as follows. Kindly any suggestions on how to >>>> fix this? >>>> >>>> cxx@x:/tomcat-dhis/bin$ ./startup.sh >>>> Using CATALINA_BASE: /tomcat-dhis >>>> Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat7 >>>> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /tomcat-dhis/temp >>>> Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/ >>>> Using CLASSPATH: >>>> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat7/bin/tomcat- >>>> juli.jar >>>> touch: cannot touch ‘/tomcat-dhis/logs/catalina.out’: Permission denied >>>> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh: 385: >>>> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/catalina.sh: cannot create /tomcat- >>>> dhis/logs/catalina.out: Permission denied >>>> -- >>>> This message was sent from Launchpad by >>>> Collins McAdoyo (https://launchpad.net/~mcadoyo) >>>> using the "Contact this team's admins" link on the DHIS 2 Users team >>>> page >>>> (https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users). >>>> For more information see >>>> https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Knut Staring >>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo >>>> Norway: +4791880522 >>>> Skype: knutstar >>>> http://dhis2.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>> Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Jason P. Pickering >> email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com >> tel:+46764147049 >> > -- Jason P. Pickering email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com tel:+46764147049
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