-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Léa,
On 10/14/14 7:06 AM, Léa Massiot wrote: > My question is about how can Tomcat be started at boot time as a > non-root user. > > The OS is Debian Wheezy. > > Below is what I did already: > > root> chown -R tomcat7.tomcat7 /opt/tomcat7/ > > I created a new file: "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" Owner and owner group: > root Permissions: 755 > ------------------------------------------------------- #! /bin/sh > > export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_67/ case $1 in > > start) /bin/bash /opt/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh Change this to: su -c "/bin/bash /opt/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh" tomcat7 Look at the man page for "su" to see what's going on. Or you can use jsvc as others have suggested. I think jsvc is probably more robust (because it can restart Tomcat if it dies) but it's a bit more hassle, too. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUPVNqAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYZJ8P/1DXo1ow0Zq++J4ECW/J80wx P4CRFc5pclJoO6sh+P5jYdzec7GTcXk4eK/i8yJypa5cVmvpLFsZeeupeyQC0xob s3rovHYdp10jnx/JtxyQIotG+lABWG3kL+ujdVs0OBrN/4aV7MLvKdWaEa6L4S7k F9NbyD6U5iAfmBooeyZP+5gCLTTSlFKv9yJ3Yh0BnsAzd8yAbXiBTEex9rfi2VfO cynKXKrtMlnmaEfTidwjlQ+sb4z+waNl5HIVf9RWZNBP4n6ov4BBP51FqzkyfmB4 qZcwu32C3PRwzarP6d3ZSD6oy8aEu4YcvLJz7cwSg9zLI843Pq1YfX/2eZEJZfFY MTH1Ct2gMqlYuStUVw1bq0qf0i2kso4s+q6Yp5gJlc3k9JbAQUNjoBEzM9+L93zp CwB/oVgVpj6h9hn803ZAghi+wAPtuwNnXDbDb0QzTC94TLv6/H5epua+H6ySDfWF d6eah/ju0aZS2+4MliT5pBfbeUg+DM9duQig92LNDZEvpdUmBqgkugSTE40+OQnF miCl6EQpy08Xb9xZkSwQ07r9FrLwhf02NwaP2SxJ5XGiWsUkU7uBI2lWNXbr9wBu TyONCdX2q6nbAFF3smlszlwbUqmGM6itspNaVS1cepi7M3znvoiXB46axbxXTzEI KHGuNSXOuAUpZZTEcK53 =6cGF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
