Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-20 Thread David Kerber 

On 3/19/2016 5:39 PM, Daniel Savard wrote:

André,

I was just trying to understand why this was a so hard requirement to
run on port 80. The provided answers didn't help to understand why
this was hardly needed. I was just questioning and sometimes, we, yes
I include myself, look at a problem with a narrow view how to solve it
and it may be helpful to be provided alternate solutions.


The most common reason to run TC on port 80 is for simplicity of 
configuration, on production, but not huge-traffic web sites which can 
tolerate a small amount of down time.





But, anyway, enough on this.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 17:02 GMT-04:00 André Warnier (tomcat) :

Daniel,

first of all, stop top-posting (this applies to both of you). This is not
the style of posting desired on this list.
See http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users, #6.

Secondly,
the original poster (lyallex) wants to run Tomcat under Linux, without a
front-end, as a webserver, listening on port 80, but running as a user which
is not root.
This is a legitimate way of running Tomcat, and it is not for you to tell
him to run it otherwise.  Presumably, he knows what he is doing, under his
circumstances.

Tomcat by itself cannot do that, because it cannot by itself start as root,
bind to port 80, and then switch users.
The jsvc program (a "wrapper" for the JVM which runs Tomcat) allows this,
which is why the OP wants to use it.
But he has problems configuring this to run under systemd.
And this was his question : how to run Tomcat as non-root under a JVM under
jsvc under systemd, listening on port 80.

I have not yet tried it myself, so I cannot really help.
But I have a feeling that the information that you have provided earlier,
can be extrapolated to the configuration which lyallex wants.
So thank you for providing that information, and let's leave it at that.
There is no need and no point in transforming this conversation into a flame
now.



On 19.03.2016 21:33, Daniel Savard wrote:

I still don't see how the number of concurrent sessions is related to
the port number.

The default ports for Tomcat are 8080 and 8443.

For huge websites, usually you have a load balancer as a front-end
anyway. You then get the capability to distribute the workload on more
than one instance of Tomcat and/or servers, so, sticking on a single
port isn't desirable since many instances on a single server cannot
run on the same port. You get the capability to eliminate any
single-point of failure as well as getting the capability to implement
a non-stop environment making a Tomcat cluster.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 15:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :



On 19 March 2016 at 19:19, Daniel Savard  wrote:

I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
interest in that.


Really, I've been running a successful commercial web site for the
last 4 years using Tomcat as a standalone web server
and servlet container using exactly this solution. 1000 concurrent
sessions pose no problem
I mentioned this in my first post, sorry if you missed it.


1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
were wrong and it is a sane behavir of systemd to not allow that
neither


No, you misunderstood. I was trying to start jsvc from a systemd service
file
Please read more carefully.I never suggested that systemd would solve
the problem


2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.

Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
are binding to port 80 as root.

Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.


What is the default port for non.-encrypted http traffic to a web server?

Anyway, I see no reason to start a slanging match, I have better things
to do.
It's all working quite nicely now anyway, thank you for your input.

To learn about jsvc see
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
You'll need an up to date ANSI C compiler (I use gcc)

Lyallex



Regards,
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :

It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening
on

*NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024

jsvc
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html

solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
was asking about.
I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.

CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)


On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard 
wrote:

Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Savard 
André,

I was just trying to understand why this was a so hard requirement to
run on port 80. The provided answers didn't help to understand why
this was hardly needed. I was just questioning and sometimes, we, yes
I include myself, look at a problem with a narrow view how to solve it
and it may be helpful to be provided alternate solutions.

But, anyway, enough on this.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 17:02 GMT-04:00 André Warnier (tomcat) :
> Daniel,
>
> first of all, stop top-posting (this applies to both of you). This is not
> the style of posting desired on this list.
> See http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users, #6.
>
> Secondly,
> the original poster (lyallex) wants to run Tomcat under Linux, without a
> front-end, as a webserver, listening on port 80, but running as a user which
> is not root.
> This is a legitimate way of running Tomcat, and it is not for you to tell
> him to run it otherwise.  Presumably, he knows what he is doing, under his
> circumstances.
>
> Tomcat by itself cannot do that, because it cannot by itself start as root,
> bind to port 80, and then switch users.
> The jsvc program (a "wrapper" for the JVM which runs Tomcat) allows this,
> which is why the OP wants to use it.
> But he has problems configuring this to run under systemd.
> And this was his question : how to run Tomcat as non-root under a JVM under
> jsvc under systemd, listening on port 80.
>
> I have not yet tried it myself, so I cannot really help.
> But I have a feeling that the information that you have provided earlier,
> can be extrapolated to the configuration which lyallex wants.
> So thank you for providing that information, and let's leave it at that.
> There is no need and no point in transforming this conversation into a flame
> now.
>
>
>
> On 19.03.2016 21:33, Daniel Savard wrote:
>>
>> I still don't see how the number of concurrent sessions is related to
>> the port number.
>>
>> The default ports for Tomcat are 8080 and 8443.
>>
>> For huge websites, usually you have a load balancer as a front-end
>> anyway. You then get the capability to distribute the workload on more
>> than one instance of Tomcat and/or servers, so, sticking on a single
>> port isn't desirable since many instances on a single server cannot
>> run on the same port. You get the capability to eliminate any
>> single-point of failure as well as getting the capability to implement
>> a non-stop environment making a Tomcat cluster.
>> -
>> Daniel Savard
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-19 15:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> On 19 March 2016 at 19:19, Daniel Savard  wrote:

 I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
 interest in that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Really, I've been running a successful commercial web site for the
>>> last 4 years using Tomcat as a standalone web server
>>> and servlet container using exactly this solution. 1000 concurrent
>>> sessions pose no problem
>>> I mentioned this in my first post, sorry if you missed it.
>>>
 1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
 were wrong and it is a sane behavir of systemd to not allow that
 neither
>>>
>>>
>>> No, you misunderstood. I was trying to start jsvc from a systemd service
>>> file
>>> Please read more carefully.I never suggested that systemd would solve
>>> the problem
>>>
 2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
 3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
 ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.

 Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
 are binding to port 80 as root.

 Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
 other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the default port for non.-encrypted http traffic to a web server?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I see no reason to start a slanging match, I have better things
>>> to do.
>>> It's all working quite nicely now anyway, thank you for your input.
>>>
>>> To learn about jsvc see
>>> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>>> You'll need an up to date ANSI C compiler (I use gcc)
>>>
>>> Lyallex
>>>
>>>

 Regards,
 -
 Daniel Savard


 2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>
> It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening
> on
>
> *NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024
>
> jsvc
> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>
> solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
> was asking about.
> I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
> startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
> If I'm wrong then I would love to see how

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread tomcat 

On 19.03.2016 22:06, Lyallex wrote:
...



I have it working now, I'd be glad to advise if required


Yes, please describe your solution.  With the increasing footprint of systemd, I am sure 
that this information will be helpful to other tomcat users, when they search the list 
archives.


It could probably usefully be made into a FAQ article too.
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ


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Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Lyallex 
On 19 March 2016 at 21:02, André Warnier (tomcat)  wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> first of all, stop top-posting (this applies to both of you). This is not
> the style of posting desired on this list.
> See http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users, #6.
>
> Secondly,
> the original poster (lyallex) wants to run Tomcat under Linux, without a
> front-end, as a webserver, listening on port 80, but running as a user which
> is not root.
> This is a legitimate way of running Tomcat, and it is not for you to tell
> him to run it otherwise.  Presumably, he knows what he is doing, under his
> circumstances.
>
> Tomcat by itself cannot do that, because it cannot by itself start as root,
> bind to port 80, and then switch users.
> The jsvc program (a "wrapper" for the JVM which runs Tomcat) allows this,
> which is why the OP wants to use it.
> But he has problems configuring this to run under systemd.
> And this was his question : how to run Tomcat as non-root under a JVM under
> jsvc under systemd, listening on port 80.
>
> I have not yet tried it myself, so I cannot really help.

I have it working now, I'd be glad to advise if required

> But I have a feeling that the information that you have provided earlier,
> can be extrapolated to the configuration which lyallex wants.
> So thank you for providing that information, and let's leave it at that.
> There is no need and no point in transforming this conversation into a flame
> now.
>

+1


>
>
> On 19.03.2016 21:33, Daniel Savard wrote:
>>
>> I still don't see how the number of concurrent sessions is related to
>> the port number.
>>
>> The default ports for Tomcat are 8080 and 8443.
>>
>> For huge websites, usually you have a load balancer as a front-end
>> anyway. You then get the capability to distribute the workload on more
>> than one instance of Tomcat and/or servers, so, sticking on a single
>> port isn't desirable since many instances on a single server cannot
>> run on the same port. You get the capability to eliminate any
>> single-point of failure as well as getting the capability to implement
>> a non-stop environment making a Tomcat cluster.
>> -
>> Daniel Savard
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-19 15:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> On 19 March 2016 at 19:19, Daniel Savard  wrote:

 I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
 interest in that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Really, I've been running a successful commercial web site for the
>>> last 4 years using Tomcat as a standalone web server
>>> and servlet container using exactly this solution. 1000 concurrent
>>> sessions pose no problem
>>> I mentioned this in my first post, sorry if you missed it.
>>>
 1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
 were wrong and it is a sane behavir of systemd to not allow that
 neither
>>>
>>>
>>> No, you misunderstood. I was trying to start jsvc from a systemd service
>>> file
>>> Please read more carefully.I never suggested that systemd would solve
>>> the problem
>>>
 2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
 3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
 ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.

 Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
 are binding to port 80 as root.

 Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
 other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the default port for non.-encrypted http traffic to a web server?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I see no reason to start a slanging match, I have better things
>>> to do.
>>> It's all working quite nicely now anyway, thank you for your input.
>>>
>>> To learn about jsvc see
>>> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>>> You'll need an up to date ANSI C compiler (I use gcc)
>>>
>>> Lyallex
>>>
>>>

 Regards,
 -
 Daniel Savard


 2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>
> It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening
> on
>
> *NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024
>
> jsvc
> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>
> solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
> was asking about.
> I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
> startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
> If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.
>
> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
>
>
> On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard 
> wrote:
>>
>> Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
>> integration with systemd.
>> -
>> Daniel Savard
>>
>>
>>

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread tomcat 

Daniel,

first of all, stop top-posting (this applies to both of you). This is not the style of 
posting desired on this list.

See http://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html#tomcat-users, #6.

Secondly,
the original poster (lyallex) wants to run Tomcat under Linux, without a front-end, as a 
webserver, listening on port 80, but running as a user which is not root.
This is a legitimate way of running Tomcat, and it is not for you to tell him to run it 
otherwise.  Presumably, he knows what he is doing, under his circumstances.


Tomcat by itself cannot do that, because it cannot by itself start as root, bind to port 
80, and then switch users.
The jsvc program (a "wrapper" for the JVM which runs Tomcat) allows this, which is why the 
OP wants to use it.

But he has problems configuring this to run under systemd.
And this was his question : how to run Tomcat as non-root under a JVM under jsvc under 
systemd, listening on port 80.


I have not yet tried it myself, so I cannot really help.
But I have a feeling that the information that you have provided earlier, can be 
extrapolated to the configuration which lyallex wants.

So thank you for providing that information, and let's leave it at that.
There is no need and no point in transforming this conversation into a flame 
now.


On 19.03.2016 21:33, Daniel Savard wrote:

I still don't see how the number of concurrent sessions is related to
the port number.

The default ports for Tomcat are 8080 and 8443.

For huge websites, usually you have a load balancer as a front-end
anyway. You then get the capability to distribute the workload on more
than one instance of Tomcat and/or servers, so, sticking on a single
port isn't desirable since many instances on a single server cannot
run on the same port. You get the capability to eliminate any
single-point of failure as well as getting the capability to implement
a non-stop environment making a Tomcat cluster.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 15:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :



On 19 March 2016 at 19:19, Daniel Savard  wrote:

I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
interest in that.


Really, I've been running a successful commercial web site for the
last 4 years using Tomcat as a standalone web server
and servlet container using exactly this solution. 1000 concurrent
sessions pose no problem
I mentioned this in my first post, sorry if you missed it.


1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
were wrong and it is a sane behavir of systemd to not allow that
neither


No, you misunderstood. I was trying to start jsvc from a systemd service file
Please read more carefully.I never suggested that systemd would solve
the problem


2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.

Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
are binding to port 80 as root.

Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.


What is the default port for non.-encrypted http traffic to a web server?

Anyway, I see no reason to start a slanging match, I have better things to do.
It's all working quite nicely now anyway, thank you for your input.

To learn about jsvc see
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
You'll need an up to date ANSI C compiler (I use gcc)

Lyallex




Regards,
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :

It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening on

*NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024

jsvc
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html

solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
was asking about.
I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.

CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)


On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard  wrote:

Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
integration with systemd.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :

Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from mine.

  

 

 

   

 

   

   

 
   

 
   

On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:

I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Savard 
I still don't see how the number of concurrent sessions is related to
the port number.

The default ports for Tomcat are 8080 and 8443.

For huge websites, usually you have a load balancer as a front-end
anyway. You then get the capability to distribute the workload on more
than one instance of Tomcat and/or servers, so, sticking on a single
port isn't desirable since many instances on a single server cannot
run on the same port. You get the capability to eliminate any
single-point of failure as well as getting the capability to implement
a non-stop environment making a Tomcat cluster.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 15:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
> 
>
> On 19 March 2016 at 19:19, Daniel Savard  wrote:
>> I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
>> interest in that.
>
> Really, I've been running a successful commercial web site for the
> last 4 years using Tomcat as a standalone web server
> and servlet container using exactly this solution. 1000 concurrent
> sessions pose no problem
> I mentioned this in my first post, sorry if you missed it.
>
>> 1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
>> were wrong and it is a sane behavir of systemd to not allow that
>> neither
>
> No, you misunderstood. I was trying to start jsvc from a systemd service file
> Please read more carefully.I never suggested that systemd would solve
> the problem
>
>> 2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
>> 3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
>> ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.
>>
>> Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
>> are binding to port 80 as root.
>>
>> Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
>> other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.
>
> What is the default port for non.-encrypted http traffic to a web server?
>
> Anyway, I see no reason to start a slanging match, I have better things to do.
> It's all working quite nicely now anyway, thank you for your input.
>
> To learn about jsvc see
> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
> You'll need an up to date ANSI C compiler (I use gcc)
>
> Lyallex
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> -
>> Daniel Savard
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>>> It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening on
>>>
>>> *NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024
>>>
>>> jsvc
>>> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>>>
>>> solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
>>> was asking about.
>>> I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
>>> startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
>>> If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.
>>>
>>> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard  wrote:
 Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
 integration with systemd.
 -
 Daniel Savard


 2016-03-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
> Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from 
> mine.
>
>  
>
> connectionTimeout="2"
>redirectPort="8443" />
>
> 
>
>   
>
>  resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
>
>   
>
>    autoDeploy="true">
>
>  directory="logs"
>prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
>rotatable="false" pattern="combined" />
>   
>
> 
>   
>
> On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:
>> I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
>> Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
>> signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
>> shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
>> file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
>> defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
>> file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
>> ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
>> ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop
>>
>> and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
>> you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
>> systemd's service file.
>>
>> It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
>> opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
>> wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
>> working with OpenRC while none of

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Lyallex 


On 19 March 2016 at 19:19, Daniel Savard  wrote:
> I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
> interest in that.

Really, I've been running a successful commercial web site for the
last 4 years using Tomcat as a standalone web server
and servlet container using exactly this solution. 1000 concurrent
sessions pose no problem
I mentioned this in my first post, sorry if you missed it.

> 1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
> were wrong and it is a sane behavir of systemd to not allow that
> neither

No, you misunderstood. I was trying to start jsvc from a systemd service file
Please read more carefully.I never suggested that systemd would solve
the problem

> 2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
> 3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
> ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.
>
> Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
> are binding to port 80 as root.
>
> Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
> other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.

What is the default port for non.-encrypted http traffic to a web server?

Anyway, I see no reason to start a slanging match, I have better things to do.
It's all working quite nicely now anyway, thank you for your input.

To learn about jsvc see
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
You'll need an up to date ANSI C compiler (I use gcc)

Lyallex


>
> Regards,
> -
> Daniel Savard
>
>
> 2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>> It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening on
>>
>> *NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024
>>
>> jsvc
>> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>>
>> solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
>> was asking about.
>> I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
>> startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
>> If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.
>>
>> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
>>
>>
>> On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard  wrote:
>>> Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
>>> integration with systemd.
>>> -
>>> Daniel Savard
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-03-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
 Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from mine.

  

 >>>connectionTimeout="2"
redirectPort="8443" />

 

   

 >>> resourceName="UserDatabase"/>

   

   >>> autoDeploy="true">

 >>> directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
rotatable="false" pattern="combined" />
   

 
   

 On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:
> I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
> Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
> signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
> shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
> file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
> defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
> file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
> ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
> ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop
>
> and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
> you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
> systemd's service file.
>
> It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
> opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
> wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
> working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
> Tomcat with systemd.
>
> In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
> with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
> need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
> properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
> distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
> very bad job at integrating Tomcat.
>
> Here is my service file:
>
> [Unit]
> Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
> After=syslog.target
> After=network.target
>
> [Service]
> EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
> Type=forking
> User=tomcat
> Group=tomcat
>

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Savard 
I see what you were trying to achieve, however I don't see much
interest in that.

1) Obviously, if you were expecting systemd to solve that problem, you
were wrong and it is a sane behavior of systemd to not allow that
neither.
2) Your solution to your problem is lying on jsvc alone.
3) I believe is bad security practice to insist to bind on privileged
ports for process that don't need that level of privilege.

Btw, even if you switch to another user to run the code, you actually
are binding to port 80 as root.

Maybe you can explain us why you want to do such a thing and using any
other unprivileged port isn't a solution to your problem.

Regards,
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 12:10 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
> It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening on
>
> *NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024
>
> jsvc
> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html
>
> solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
> was asking about.
> I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
> startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
> If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.
>
> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
>
>
> On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard  wrote:
>> Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
>> integration with systemd.
>> -
>> Daniel Savard
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>>> Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from mine.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> >>connectionTimeout="2"
>>>redirectPort="8443" />
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> >> resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>   >> autoDeploy="true">
>>>
>>> >> directory="logs"
>>>prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
>>>rotatable="false" pattern="combined" />
>>>   
>>>
>>> 
>>>   
>>>
>>> On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:
 I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
 Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
 signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
 shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
 file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
 defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
 file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
 ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
 ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop

 and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
 you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
 systemd's service file.

 It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
 opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
 wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
 working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
 Tomcat with systemd.

 In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
 with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
 need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
 properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
 distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
 very bad job at integrating Tomcat.

 Here is my service file:

 [Unit]
 Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
 After=syslog.target
 After=network.target

 [Service]
 EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
 Type=forking
 User=tomcat
 Group=tomcat
 ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh start
 ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh stop

 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target


 And here is the content of my EnvironmentFile:

 CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds"
 CATALINA_BASE="/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev"
 CATALINA_OUT="/var/log/tomcat-8-dev/catalina.out"
 JAVA_HOME="/opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.74"
 CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat-8-dev.pid"


 -
 Daniel Savard


 2016-03-18 13:31 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
> I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.
>
> It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service
>
> For some reason
>
> ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
> (file shown at the end of this message)
>
> Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
> we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Lyallex 
It's the simplest way to find out which port you have Tomcat listening on

*NIX based systems don't allow non root uses bind to ports < 1024

jsvc
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/jsvc.html

solves this problem, nobody seems to have grasped that this is what I
was asking about.
I know of no way to start the container, on port 80 using either
startup.sh or catalina.sh using start, run or anything else.
If I'm wrong then I would love to see how it's done.

CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)


On 19 March 2016 at 13:46, Daniel Savard  wrote:
> Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
> integration with systemd.
> -
> Daniel Savard
>
>
> 2016-03-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>> Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from mine.
>>
>>  
>>
>> >connectionTimeout="2"
>>redirectPort="8443" />
>>
>> 
>>
>>   
>>
>> > resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
>>
>>   
>>
>>   > autoDeploy="true">
>>
>> > directory="logs"
>>prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
>>rotatable="false" pattern="combined" />
>>   
>>
>> 
>>   
>>
>> On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:
>>> I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
>>> Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
>>> signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
>>> shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
>>> file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
>>> defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
>>> file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
>>> ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
>>> ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop
>>>
>>> and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
>>> you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
>>> systemd's service file.
>>>
>>> It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
>>> opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
>>> wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
>>> working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
>>> Tomcat with systemd.
>>>
>>> In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
>>> with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
>>> need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
>>> properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
>>> distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
>>> very bad job at integrating Tomcat.
>>>
>>> Here is my service file:
>>>
>>> [Unit]
>>> Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
>>> After=syslog.target
>>> After=network.target
>>>
>>> [Service]
>>> EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
>>> Type=forking
>>> User=tomcat
>>> Group=tomcat
>>> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh start
>>> ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh stop
>>>
>>> [Install]
>>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>>
>>>
>>> And here is the content of my EnvironmentFile:
>>>
>>> CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds"
>>> CATALINA_BASE="/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev"
>>> CATALINA_OUT="/var/log/tomcat-8-dev/catalina.out"
>>> JAVA_HOME="/opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.74"
>>> CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat-8-dev.pid"
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>> Daniel Savard
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-03-18 13:31 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
 I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.

 It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service

 For some reason

 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
 (file shown at the end of this message)

 Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
 we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.
 It appears that systemd doesn't expand variables so I really need to
 investigate the systemd Environment thing a bit more.
 Anyway, when I shutdown -r now the server comes back up and tomcat is
 running at the unprivileged tomcat user on port 80 so that's a result

 == /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service 
 [Unit]
 Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
 After=network.target

 [Service]
 Type=forking
 User=root

 ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/jsvc \
 -user tomcat \
 -home /opt/jdk1.7.0_45 \
 -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
 -Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp \
 -Djava.awt.headless=true \
 -Xms512m \
 -Xmx1024m \
 -outfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.out \
 -errfile

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Daniel Savard 
Why? What is the point? The server.xml has nothing to do with
integration with systemd.
-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-19 1:40 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
> Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from mine.
>
>  
>
> connectionTimeout="2"
>redirectPort="8443" />
>
> 
>
>   
>
>  resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
>
>   
>
>autoDeploy="true">
>
>  directory="logs"
>prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
>rotatable="false" pattern="combined" />
>   
>
> 
>   
>
> On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:
>> I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
>> Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
>> signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
>> shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
>> file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
>> defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
>> file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
>> ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
>> ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop
>>
>> and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
>> you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
>> systemd's service file.
>>
>> It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
>> opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
>> wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
>> working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
>> Tomcat with systemd.
>>
>> In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
>> with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
>> need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
>> properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
>> distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
>> very bad job at integrating Tomcat.
>>
>> Here is my service file:
>>
>> [Unit]
>> Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
>> After=syslog.target
>> After=network.target
>>
>> [Service]
>> EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
>> Type=forking
>> User=tomcat
>> Group=tomcat
>> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh start
>> ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh stop
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>
>>
>> And here is the content of my EnvironmentFile:
>>
>> CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds"
>> CATALINA_BASE="/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev"
>> CATALINA_OUT="/var/log/tomcat-8-dev/catalina.out"
>> JAVA_HOME="/opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.74"
>> CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat-8-dev.pid"
>>
>>
>> -
>> Daniel Savard
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-18 13:31 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>>> I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.
>>>
>>> It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service
>>>
>>> For some reason
>>>
>>> ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
>>> (file shown at the end of this message)
>>>
>>> Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
>>> we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.
>>> It appears that systemd doesn't expand variables so I really need to
>>> investigate the systemd Environment thing a bit more.
>>> Anyway, when I shutdown -r now the server comes back up and tomcat is
>>> running at the unprivileged tomcat user on port 80 so that's a result
>>>
>>> == /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service 
>>> [Unit]
>>> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
>>> After=network.target
>>>
>>> [Service]
>>> Type=forking
>>> User=root
>>>
>>> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/jsvc \
>>> -user tomcat \
>>> -home /opt/jdk1.7.0_45 \
>>> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
>>> -Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
>>> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp \
>>> -Djava.awt.headless=true \
>>> -Xms512m \
>>> -Xmx1024m \
>>> -outfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.out \
>>> -errfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.err \
>>> -pidfile /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid \
>>> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
>>> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/logging.properties
>>> \
>>> -cp 
>>> /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/jdk1.7.0_45/lib/tools.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
>>> \
>>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>>>
>>> ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>>> ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>>>
>>> [Install]
>>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh happy day
>>> Thanks again to all responders
>>>
>>>

porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-19 Thread Lyallex 
I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.

It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service

For some reason

ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
(file shown at the end of this message)

Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.
It appears that systemd doesn't expand variables so I really need to
investigate the systemd Environment thing a bit more.
Anyway, when I shutdown -r now the server comes back up and tomcat is
running at the unprivileged tomcat user on port 80 so that's a result

== /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service 
[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=root

ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/jsvc \
-user tomcat \
-home /opt/jdk1.7.0_45 \
-Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
-Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp \
-Djava.awt.headless=true \
-Xms512m \
-Xmx1024m \
-outfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.out \
-errfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.err \
-pidfile /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid \
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/logging.properties
\
-cp 
/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/jdk1.7.0_45/lib/tools.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
\
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


Oh happy day
Thanks again to all responders

Lyallex

= /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7  =

JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_45
CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
export JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME
CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PIDFILE=/var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid


RC=0

case "$1" in

  start)

   $CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc -user $TOMCAT_USER -home $JAVA_HOME
-Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
-Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_HOME -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMPDIR
-Djava.awt.headless=true \
 -Xms512m \
 -Xmx1024m \
 -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
 -errfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.err \
 -pidfile '/var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid' \
 -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
 -Djava.util.logging.config.file=$CATALINA_HOME/conf/logging.properties \
 -cp $CLASSPATH  \
 org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

RC=$?

[ $RC = 0 ] && touch /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat
echo "starting tomcat7 on darkstar with:"
echo "JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME"
echo "CATALINA_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME"
echo "CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH"
echo "tomcat started"
;;

  stop)

PID=`cat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid`
kill $PID

   RC=$?

[ $RC = 0 ] && rm -f /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
echo "stopping tomcat7 on darkstar with:"
echo "JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME"
echo "CATALINA_HOME=$CATALINA_HOME"
echo "CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH"

echo "tomcat stopped"
;;

  *)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RC

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Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-18 Thread Lyallex 
Would you mind posting your server.xml, here is the relevant bit from mine.

 





  



  

  


  


  

On 18 March 2016 at 23:35, Daniel Savard  wrote:
> I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
> Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
> signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
> shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
> file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
> defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
> file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
> ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
> ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop
>
> and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
> you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
> systemd's service file.
>
> It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
> opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
> wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
> working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
> Tomcat with systemd.
>
> In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
> with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
> need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
> properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
> distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
> very bad job at integrating Tomcat.
>
> Here is my service file:
>
> [Unit]
> Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
> After=syslog.target
> After=network.target
>
> [Service]
> EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
> Type=forking
> User=tomcat
> Group=tomcat
> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh start
> ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh stop
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
> And here is the content of my EnvironmentFile:
>
> CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds"
> CATALINA_BASE="/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev"
> CATALINA_OUT="/var/log/tomcat-8-dev/catalina.out"
> JAVA_HOME="/opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.74"
> CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat-8-dev.pid"
>
>
> -
> Daniel Savard
>
>
> 2016-03-18 13:31 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>> I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.
>>
>> It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service
>>
>> For some reason
>>
>> ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
>> (file shown at the end of this message)
>>
>> Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
>> we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.
>> It appears that systemd doesn't expand variables so I really need to
>> investigate the systemd Environment thing a bit more.
>> Anyway, when I shutdown -r now the server comes back up and tomcat is
>> running at the unprivileged tomcat user on port 80 so that's a result
>>
>> == /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service 
>> [Unit]
>> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
>> After=network.target
>>
>> [Service]
>> Type=forking
>> User=root
>>
>> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/jsvc \
>> -user tomcat \
>> -home /opt/jdk1.7.0_45 \
>> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
>> -Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
>> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp \
>> -Djava.awt.headless=true \
>> -Xms512m \
>> -Xmx1024m \
>> -outfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.out \
>> -errfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.err \
>> -pidfile /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid \
>> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
>> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/logging.properties
>> \
>> -cp 
>> /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/jdk1.7.0_45/lib/tools.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
>> \
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>>
>> ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>> ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>
>>
>> Oh happy day
>> Thanks again to all responders
>>
>> Lyallex
>>
>> = /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7  =
>>
>> JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_45
>> CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
>> export JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME
>> CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
>> TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
>> TMPDIR=/var/tmp
>> PIDFILE=/var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>>
>>
>> RC=0
>>
>> case "$1" in
>>
>>   start)
>>
>>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc -user $TOMCAT_USER -home $JAVA_HOME
>> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
>> -Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_HOME

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-18 Thread jieryn 
Or remove the Type=Forking and just execute catalina.sh run, as I had
suggested days ago. Then you can drop the ExecStop too.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Daniel Savard  wrote:
> I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
> Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
> signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
> shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
> file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
> defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
> file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
> ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
> ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop
>
> and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
> you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
> systemd's service file.
>
> It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
> opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
> wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
> working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
> Tomcat with systemd.
>
> In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
> with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
> need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
> properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
> distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
> very bad job at integrating Tomcat.
>
> Here is my service file:
>
> [Unit]
> Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
> After=syslog.target
> After=network.target
>
> [Service]
> EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
> Type=forking
> User=tomcat
> Group=tomcat
> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh start
> ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh stop
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
> And here is the content of my EnvironmentFile:
>
> CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds"
> CATALINA_BASE="/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev"
> CATALINA_OUT="/var/log/tomcat-8-dev/catalina.out"
> JAVA_HOME="/opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.74"
> CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat-8-dev.pid"
>
>
> -
> Daniel Savard
>
>
> 2016-03-18 13:31 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
>> I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.
>>
>> It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service
>>
>> For some reason
>>
>> ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
>> (file shown at the end of this message)
>>
>> Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
>> we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.
>> It appears that systemd doesn't expand variables so I really need to
>> investigate the systemd Environment thing a bit more.
>> Anyway, when I shutdown -r now the server comes back up and tomcat is
>> running at the unprivileged tomcat user on port 80 so that's a result
>>
>> == /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service 
>> [Unit]
>> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
>> After=network.target
>>
>> [Service]
>> Type=forking
>> User=root
>>
>> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/jsvc \
>> -user tomcat \
>> -home /opt/jdk1.7.0_45 \
>> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
>> -Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
>> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp \
>> -Djava.awt.headless=true \
>> -Xms512m \
>> -Xmx1024m \
>> -outfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.out \
>> -errfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.err \
>> -pidfile /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid \
>> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
>> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/logging.properties
>> \
>> -cp 
>> /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/jdk1.7.0_45/lib/tools.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
>> \
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>>
>> ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>> ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>
>>
>> Oh happy day
>> Thanks again to all responders
>>
>> Lyallex
>>
>> = /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7  =
>>
>> JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_45
>> CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
>> export JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME
>> CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
>> TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
>> TMPDIR=/var/tmp
>> PIDFILE=/var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>>
>>
>> RC=0
>>
>> case "$1" in
>>
>>   start)
>>
>>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc -user $TOMCAT_USER -home $JAVA_HOME
>> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
>> -Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_HOME -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMPDIR
>>

Re: porting jsvc startup script from init.d to systemd tomcat.service, resolved

2016-03-18 Thread Daniel Savard 
I believe all distros have over engineered the scripts to start
Tomcat. Forget all the scripts from your distro, learn the
signification of the environment variables from the catalina.sh script
shipped with the default Tomcat version. Define your variables in a
file, this file is not a script, so you cannot reuse a previously
defined variable, feed your systemd service definition file with this
file in the service section as EnvironmentFile=/path/name/to/your/file
ExecStart=/path/to/catalina.sh start
ExecStop=/path/to/catalina.sh stop

and you are done. You control everything from the environment file,
you can easily manage the environment variables without editing the
systemd's service file.

It is much simpler than the OpenRC set of scripts at my humble
opinion. I am running Gentoo at home and RHEL at work and both distros
wrapped Tomcat into too many layers of scripts in order to make it
working with OpenRC while none of these are required to run and manage
Tomcat with systemd.

In particular with Gentoo, I no longer use the Tomcat distro packaged
with Gentoo because they separated the servlet api from Tomcat and you
need to wrap things into layers of scripts to define the classpath
properly taking this into account, the vanilla classpath.sh file
distributed with Tomcat doesn't work and so one. Really, they did a
very bad job at integrating Tomcat.

Here is my service file:

[Unit]
Description=Tomcat 8 (Dev)
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev/bin/tomcat-8-dev.env
Type=forking
User=tomcat
Group=tomcat
ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh start
ExecStop=/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds/bin/catalina.sh stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


And here is the content of my EnvironmentFile:

CATALINA_HOME="/opt/apache-tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.32_ds"
CATALINA_BASE="/tomcat/tomcat-8-dev"
CATALINA_OUT="/var/log/tomcat-8-dev/catalina.out"
JAVA_HOME="/opt/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.74"
CATALINA_PID="/var/run/tomcat-8-dev.pid"


-
Daniel Savard


2016-03-18 13:31 GMT-04:00 Lyallex :
> I thought you might be interested in the resolution to this.
>
> It turns out that we needed to reproduce the environment in tomcat.service
>
> For some reason
>
> ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7 doesn't work
> (file shown at the end of this message)
>
> Instead, in  /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
> we have had to reproduce the environment in longhand to get it to work.
> It appears that systemd doesn't expand variables so I really need to
> investigate the systemd Environment thing a bit more.
> Anyway, when I shutdown -r now the server comes back up and tomcat is
> running at the unprivileged tomcat user on port 80 so that's a result
>
> == /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service 
> [Unit]
> Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
> After=network.target
>
> [Service]
> Type=forking
> User=root
>
> ExecStart=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/jsvc \
> -user tomcat \
> -home /opt/jdk1.7.0_45 \
> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
> -Dcatalina.base=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \
> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp \
> -Djava.awt.headless=true \
> -Xms512m \
> -Xmx1024m \
> -outfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.out \
> -errfile /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/logs/catalina.err \
> -pidfile /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid \
> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/conf/logging.properties
> \
> -cp 
> /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/opt/jdk1.7.0_45/lib/tools.jar:/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
> \
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
>
> ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
> ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -f /var/tc7lock/subsys/tomcat /var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
> Oh happy day
> Thanks again to all responders
>
> Lyallex
>
> = /etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat7  =
>
> JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_45
> CATALINA_HOME=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
> export JAVA_HOME CATALINA_HOME
> CLASSPATH=$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$CATALINA_HOME/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
> TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
> TMPDIR=/var/tmp
> PIDFILE=/var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid
>
>
> RC=0
>
> case "$1" in
>
>   start)
>
>$CATALINA_HOME/bin/jsvc -user $TOMCAT_USER -home $JAVA_HOME
> -Dcatalina.home=/opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.42
> -Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_HOME -Djava.io.tmpdir=$TMPDIR
> -Djava.awt.headless=true \
>  -Xms512m \
>  -Xmx1024m \
>  -outfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out \
>  -errfile $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.err \
>  -pidfile '/var/run/tc7/jsvc.pid' \
>  -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager \
>  -Djava.util.logging.config.file=$CATALINA_HOME/conf/logging.properties \
>  -cp $CLASSPATH  \
>