Good point, you are probably right on the PPID thing, I hadn't considered that scenario.
I usually set my tomcat permissions like this: chmod -R tomcat:tomcat $CATALINA_HOME If possible, you want to use deploy tools to deploy your app, then you don't have developers logging into the server and editing files directly, this makes handling users, groups, and permissions much easier. You have to decide where the tradeoff is...increased security vs. decreased administration and flexibility and vice versa. So, what books did you buy? LOL ;) John > -----Original Message----- > From: Denise Mangano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:07 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: Na�ve question about root > > > John - > > Have you ever been, or thought of being a professor? ; ) > Actually, I don't > think Tomcat was running at boot because after I rebooted the > server I could > not access the index page through my website:8080. > > I think I see my mistake. What I did was I created a group > tomcat and a > user tomcat under that group, and I added myself to that > group and made > myself owner of just the webapps directory. I kept owner of the other > directories such as bin as owned by root. So when I went to > start Tomcat as > myself, it gave me a permission denied. So I used the "su -" > command and > started it as root. I am going to change owner of the entire tomcat > directory to myself. And I will give user tomcat executable rights. > > After starting Tomcat manually I was able to see > mywebsite:8080/index.jsp. > Maybe the PPID of the first java process is 1 only because I > started it as > root (looking at the file it seems all processes that were > started as root > have a PPID of 1)... > > Thanks :) > > Denise Mangano > Help Desk Analyst > Complus Data Innovations, Inc. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
