Hi Ben, I didnt mention that but I did check that write permissions were on. Currently I dont have a log4j configuration. I am just trying to get it to work.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Ben Stringer <b...@burbong.com> wrote: > > > On 26/02/2013, at 12:14 PM, Elias Kopsiaftis <yemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am running a webapp on Tomcat 7 and I am using log4j for logging. > > However, log4j cannot create a log file and Im getting a permission > denied > > error in the catalina.out file. I am runnning on linux, and made sure > that > > the current working directory(which I got by printing it from within the > > application), /var/lib/tomcat7, and all its subdirectories were in the > > tomcat7 group, which should give the web app permissions to create files, > > but its not working. any suggestions? > > Hi Elias, > > That directory will also need "group write" permission set. Best way to > work through this problem is to "sudo" to the userid that will be running > tomcat, then try and create a file in that directory from the shell. > > If it is the group write that is missing, this command will add it: > > chmod g+w /var/lib/tomcat7 > > But that is not where you should be writing logs. /var/log is a > conventional place to keep logs. What is your log4j configuration? > > Cheers, Ben > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
