On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:42:51PM -0600, D Henton wrote: > I want to run tomcat 4.0x on a Solaris 8 box in standalone mode on port 80 > as a user other than root. > > Is this possible? I been zipping through the archives and what I am hearing > is that because root can only open ports < 100, this scenario wouldn't be > possible. There was a post on jguru saying that this feature might be added > in newer versions. > > Am I missing something? Is this one of those magical sysadmin things, via > sudo or whatever?
It's a unix/linux thing that privileged ports (<1024) can only be opened by root. Other than running tomcat as root (which is probably not a good idea), there isn't much tomcat can do to work around this. > I could proxy it via apache and ajp13, but we are TOTALLY jsp/servlet, so I > don't want to put apache in if I can avoid it. you could use nat/redirection to send requests to port 80 to port 8080 etc. Adi -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
