Dear Mark, Your explanation is quite clear and I think I have been doing in a wrong way. Someone even document something like setting directories of tomcat6 (e.g. /etc/tomcat6 /var/lib/tomcat6 /var/cache/tomcat6 and /var/log/tomcat6) to be owned by user 'dspace' !!
Well, I was silly enough (ignorance enough) to follow that and finally caused tomcat6 unable to start ! Another big point, I read from someone's document saying that a command like: update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm//usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java is also needed. (Specific to Ubuntu 8.10 with sun-java6-jdk package). Do we have to run this command every time when server is rebooted ? Panyarak Prince of Songkla University On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 02:46:06PM +0700, Panyarak Ngamsritragul wrote: >> Thanks for additional info. I am now starting from the first step using >> Ubuntu's repository management system. At the moment, I finished >> installing postgreSQL and now installing TomCat6. >> >> In DSpace's installation instructions, I read: >> "Note that DSpace will need to run as the same user as Tomcat, so you >> might want to install and run Tomcat as a user called 'dspace'." >> >> This is very confused as it should not be possible to install any software >> package without being 'root' in Unix like system. > > The account used to install software, and the account used to run it, > may be different. The instructions here seem to be aimed at someone > who is installing Tomcat without the aid of a distribution's package > manager and solely for use with DSpace. Since you are using Ubuntu's > package manager, it probably created a user account specifically for > Tomcat and installed the product to be run by that user. I use Gentoo > Linux and the Tomcat packaged by Gentoo, and it does the same, setting > up Tomcat to run as a user named "tomcat". > > The important thing here is that the user account used to run Tomcat > must have sufficient access to the DSpace files. If Tomcat is set up > to run as a user "tomcat" then I would install DSpace in such a way > that it is owned by "tomcat", probably by just being 'su tomcat' > before installing. You can use the 'root' account to create the > [DSpace] directory and set its ownership appropriately, before > installation. > > It is difficult to document this process literally, because different > operating environments might use different account names. If you have > some reason to run Tomcat as a particular user, then I would consider > every reference to "dspace" as a user account to be a placeholder for > the account that Tomcat uses, whatever that is. > > -- Panyarak Ngamsritragul Department of Mechanical Engineering Prince of Songkla University. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
