Thus the request for clarification on what our good friend Scott means by 'completely'. If access to writable disk is not available, the whole shootin' match is off...
I think we agree, we just said it in different ways ;-) -chris > > Howdy, > Note, however, that all FileLoggers have a configurable > directory. The > workDir for host and context is configurable as well. The > system.out/system.err destination is set to > $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out in > $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh and can > be changed at will. > > So a more accurate answer might be: > - You need to modify the above in your server.xml and > catalina.sh before > burning your copy of tomcat to CD > - Whatever directory you use for your logs and workDir (which > is required > by the servlet spec, as I said earlier) needs to be off the > CD-ROM, but > accessible and writeable. > > Yoav Shapira > > > \On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Halstead, Chris wrote: > > > Clarify 'completely'. If you have no access to writable > disk you'll be unable to produce logs or persist context data > under ./work. I suppose that you could do some fancy stuff > with a RAMdisk, assuming that you are running on an OS that > supports this. With an out of the box binary set you > wouldn't be successful...catalina.sh will fail when it can't > create ./logs/catalina.out. > > > > -chris > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: samckins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:30 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: running tomcat from CD > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to run Tomcat completely off of a CD-ROM? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Scott > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]