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
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