And in general, symbolic links from an application space running as root is generally a bad idea.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Probst [mailto:andpro77@;gmx.net] > Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 10:48 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > Hi Chris, > > you could set your classpath in the tomcat startup script. But > this is not recommended. There were messages a few days ago > explaining this. > > Besides, it might not always be desirable that Tomcat knows when > classes change... > > Andreas > > > On 2 Nov 2002 at 7:52, Chris gokey wrote: > > > Under UNIX it was very convenient for us to create a symbolic > > link from our WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes directory to the > > respective directories in our package that contained our jars and > > to the base directory of our package structure (for the purpose > > of setting up the CLASSPATH). But unfortunately this approach is > > not platform independent and won't work under windows. Is my > > only alternative to copy all these files to WEB-INF? The > > advantage of symbolically linking is that any time these classes > > changed, Tomcat would automatically know about it. Is there > > another way to tell Tomcat where my claases are? Possibly > > specify the CLASSPATH in my web.xml file? > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
