Ooops, typing too fast. That should be "chown", not "chmod".
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:14 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: [OFF-TOPIC] RE: Na�ve question about root > > > > 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
