Hi Again, Well after pulling my hair out and getting very frustrated I have finally fixed and documented everything that needs to be done in order to get Tomcat 5 working on SuSE 9.2.
This seems a little strange since I am using the version of Tomcat that comes with SuSE 9.2, but I won't say anymore on the matter. There are basically two important permission things that need to be done. 1). The files admin.xml and manager.xml in /etc/tomcat5/base/Catalina/localhost/ need to be given write access to the tomcat user. There new profile should look like this: -rw-rw-r-- 1 root tomcat 862 Oct 5 03:20 admin.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 root tomcat 428 Oct 5 03:20 manager.xml This fix removes the previous error regarding the admin and manager applications that I posted earlier. 2). The tomcat user needs to be given access to /var/run in order to create the relevant PID file. Because my server is behind a firewall and I change the ROOT and user password on the server regularly, I changed the /var/run permissions so that everyone could read and write from and to this directory. The new profile should look like this: drwxrwxrwx 15 root root 1032 Nov 24 09:11 run This fix solves various issues regarding the admin and manager applications as well as the start.log error. Thats it. I don't know if this information will be useful to anyone, but I thought I would share it with you all anyway. Regards Q -- Quinton Delpeche Internal Systems Developer Softline VIP Telephone: +27 12 420 7000 Direct: +27 12 420 7007 Facsimile: +27 12 420 7344 http://www.vippayroll.co.za/ A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their arguments, they got all the way back to the Garden of Eden, whereupon the doctor said, "The medical profession is clearly the oldest, because Eve was made from Adam's rib, as the story goes, and that was a simply incredible surgical feat." The architect did not agree. He said, "But if you look at the Garden itself, in the beginning there was chaos and void, and out of that, the Garden and the world were created. So God must have been an architect." The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said, "Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"
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