How do you get it to listen on port 80? I thought you needed to be root to
listen on ports less than 1024? I saw something in the release notes about a
JavaService or something, but, I haven't been able to locate much else on it
(running Tomcat as a non-root user).
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Brooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: Tomcat - Running as non root and thread limiting.
>
> > Hi,
> > Anther two questions (should be the last 2 and then maybe I can
> > help people). Is there any way in configuration to run tomcat as a
> > non root user, or is the only way to su to the user and then run
> > tomcat? We have a process killer that won't kill tasks with a main
> > "root" thread, i.e. how apache runs.
>
> Surely! I *never* run tomcat as root. On my production servers it runs
> as user 'tomcat'. Create the user (and group if you like); unpack
> tomcat as that user, to create all the bits with that user's
> permissions; write your startup script to start tomcat as that user.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
>
> ;; It appears that /dev/null is a conforming XSL processor.
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