So if 'developer' is the owner of the tomcat directory, and your webapps and all files that are trying to be written are under that directory, it sounds like it works fine for you when 'developer' starts tomcat- so tomcat is run as the developer user, and since developer has rights to create files under that directory, it works fine.
On the other hand your tomcat user doesn't sound like it has rights.
I would suggest that you always run tomcat as the tomcat user, and make developer and root start it as the tomcat user.
That can be easily done with a startup script instead of calling $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh directly or whatever it is.
I would make sure that the directories all have the tomcat user as the owner and group, and then add root and developer to that group.
What Unix is this? Linux? Solaris?
Here is the format to make tomcat run as the tomcat user with a /etc/rc.d/tomcat
I also have catalina.out automatically rotated every time I start tomcat.
#!/bin/sh ##################################################################
# Comments to support chkconfig on RedHat Linux # chkconfig: 2345 84 84 # description: A very fast and reliable J2EE Servlet Container.
timestamp=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S` echo "timestamp= $timestamp"
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL echo "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL= $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL"
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java export JAVA_HOME echo "JAVA_HOME= $JAVA_HOME"
CLASSPATH=/usr/local/java/jre/lib/core.jar:/usr/local/java/jre/lib/server.jar export CLASSPATH echo "CLASSPATH= $CLASSPATH"
TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/jakarta-tomcat export TOMCAT_HOME echo "TOMCAT_HOME= $TOMCAT_HOME"
#CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms196m -Xmx896m -Dbuild.compiler.emacs=true" #export CATALINA_OPTS #echo "CATALINA_OPTS= $CATALINA_OPTS"
case $1 in
'start')
su tomcat4 -c "mv $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/catalina.out $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/catalina.$timestamp"
su tomcat4 -c "$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh"
sleep 10
/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful
;;
'stop')
su tomcat4 -c "$TOMCAT_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh"
;;
'status')
ps auxw | fgrep tomcat | fgrep -v status | fgrep -v grep | fgrep -v tail
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|status}"
;;
esac
# END OF /etc/rc.d/tomcat
Daniel
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Hello, I have a situation where if a developer owns Tomcat 3 and stops/starts server the apps on that server all j2ee web-apps run fine. If I as root or 'tomcat_user' or su to developer id stop/start Tomcat 3 then all j2ee web-apps run except modules that produce .jpegs dynamically. In the latter case Tomcat was setup so that the user who stop/started Tomcat owned all file/directories.
My first response was to make all files/directories world
read,write,execute. It must be a UNIX permission thing right. Also I umask'd
and source'd the UNIX personal env of each user to be world
read,write,execute on any directories/files created but still no difference,
the graphs are not displayed. The graph libs are using JFreechart, btw.
This is a long running issue and I would appreciate any help as I am not sure if this is a UNIX or Tomcat or JFreechart issue. Any suggestions? Why would I not be able to remotely log into box, su - to developer id and stop/start Tomcat with all apps functioning? Also, developer's personal UNIX acct is basic stock settings with no extra frills.
Regards, Earle
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