Hi,
Well, you run jsvc as root and it the changes itself the tomcat user.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ashwin Desai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 11:10 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: JSVC problems with Tomcat 5.0.19 & Linux
>
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to get Tomcat 5.0.19 to run as a non-root user using
>commons daemon - jsvc on a linux machine.
>
>uname -a
>Linux rx2600 2.4.20-cgl-1.12-mckinley-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 23 09:21:46
>MDT 2003 ia64 unknown
>
>I got the following error in the log file
>
>syscall failed in set_caps
>service exits with a value of 4
>
>After looking at a few solutions on the internet, I commented out the
>set_caps(CAPS) & set_caps(CAPSMIN) lines from jsvc-unix.c and tried
>again.
>
>Now, tomcat started properrly but had problems binding to port 80
>(java.net.BindException)
>
>It looks like these set_caps() calls are needed to get the proper
>permissions to bind to port 80.
>
>/* set capabilities enough for binding port 80 setuid/getuid */
>    if (set_caps(CAPS)!=0)
>        return(-1);
>
>Anyone else has seen this problem before. Any suggestions/solutions
>??
>
>Thanks a lot in advance.
>
>Ashwin.
>
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