Thanks. I will take a look at it.

BaTien

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:31 +0100, Darryl L. Miles wrote:
> Duong BaTien wrote:
> 
> >I set tomcat 5.5.9 running in port 8080 so it can be started without
> >using the root user. However, when I start tomcat using linux rc.local
> >at system start up (/apps/tomcat-5/bin/startup.sh), it seems that the
> >tomcat instance is started under root.
> >
> >Question: Where do i set the user that starts tomcat instance via Redhat
> >  
> >
> >Fedora Core start up?
> >  
> >
> 
> READ: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html
> 
> Check out the "-user <username>" argument to "jsvc" which may not be so 
> well documented.
> 
> 
> For non-root running check out "jsvc" bundled with Tomcat:
> 
> Extracted TC to /opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9
> 
> # To run it as java service need to build jsvc
> cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
> tar -zxvf jsvc.tar.gz
> cd jsvc-src
> autoconf
> JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0_04"
> export JAVA_HOME
> sh ./configure
> make
> cp jsvc ..
> cd ..
> 
> # Create a system user for tomcat
> /usr/sbin/groupadd  -g 155 jakarta
> /usr/sbin/useradd -u 155 -g jakarta -s /sbin/nologin jakarta
> 
> # Fix all the permissions on the $CATALINA_HOME with
> chown jakarta. -R $CATALINA_HOME
> 
> # This bit below you can put into your own startup script for TC and 
> call each time
> JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0_04"
> export JAVA_HOME
> PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"
> export PATH
> 
> CATALINA_HOME=/opt/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9
> export CATALINA_HOME
> 
> cd $CATALINA_HOME
>     ./bin/jsvc -Djava.endorsed.dirs=./common/endorsed -cp 
> ./bin/bootstrap.jar \
>         -outfile ./logs/catalina.out -errfile ./logs/catalina.err \
>         -pidfile "./logs/jsvc.pid" \
>         -user jakarta \
>         org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe you create a script in /etc/init.d/mytomcat that works the same 
> way at the others in there ?  Then symlink from each useful runlevel 
> /etc/rc.d/rc[345].d/mytomcat -> /etc/initd.d/mytomcat, use 
> /sbin/runlevel to see which you are at already.
> 
> Maybe you are lazy and simply add a few lines to /etc/rc.local ?
> 
> 
> Eitherway should do the trick.
> 


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