> Remy, > > Remy Maucherat wrote: > > > > I agree with Pier here. I think we should only try to implement daemon > > fnctionality using the appropriate wrapper. Implmenting it with standard > > Tomcat using scripts is a nasty hack. > > Somehow, Patrick doesn't seem to like my BootstrapService (which works > > perfectly well; it's even been in use for a long time through the NT service > > which ships with the Windows installer) :-( > > I admit it: I was trying to implement a hack. I am definitely warming up to the > idea of jumping straight into Pier's scripts. After all of this discussion, it > doesn't seem to be so much work to switch to a native launcher to implement the > setuid() stuff.
Wait, Costin did cast his vote in your favor ;-) > Plus, I agree with Remy that the use of shell scripts to launch Tomcat is a bit > nasty. I like the idea of using Pier's launcher (I assume the Windows native > code has a native launcher as well?) *cough* Well, let's say the current Windows code needs Cygwin and the jsvc "Unix" wrapper at the moment ;-) Obviously, contributors are needed to implment a Win native JNI based wrapper :-D > to be able to start Tomcat via a > double-click on an executable and no MS-DOS window on Windows. At the moment, it is only a NT service, I think. The exe wrapper can (and probably should) do both. Remy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
