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Chris, On 11/20/2014 12:11 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Léa, > > On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, Léa Massiot wrote: >> Thank you for your answers. > >> @MarkEggers Thank you very much for sharing. > >>> Christopher Schultz wrote There are reasons to use jsvc, but >>> the ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them. > >> What are these reasons according to you (apart from running >> Tomcat as a daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at the >> time)? > > Several I can think of without spending too much time: > > 1. (by a large margin) Allows access to ports < 1024 This is not required. Use either su -c or runuser -c (if using SELinux) to access ports < 1024. > 2. Automatic re-start of JVM process if the JVM exits This is nice, especially for misbehaving web applications that cannot (or will not) be fixed. > 3. Control JVM process by sending signal to parent process This is also nice, but reasonably written init scripts will do most of what is needed. > 4. Enable rotation of stdout/stderr files Without restarting, this is nice. There are several hacks you can do with logrotate that are useful, but they all have drawbacks. > >> Also Excerpt from here: >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon >> "jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it >> to switch to another user after the daemon initialization is >> complete. This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non >> privileged user while still being able to use privileged ports." > > This is just a note about additional features, certainly not the > primary feature of jsvc. > > -chris . . . just my two cents /mde/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUblihAAoJEEFGbsYNeTwtQBMH/2fONQ2DF5PuZUtSihPwJEtG GUov/q7jlsG4Ou5PG25czuL8s69eDPzpNX3BO3mrk5pIUb54UveJVz4ht8Xqq0B9 /1G9NWBb1Yx6lHDrXRdERACfxdQgpE4GuzJ8Uc0ZsLq+QMcdyBMXLYFrP3EPFXhn bdiIL5VjsGXUhMWdmM2qaTfgXdMSCXsY5CWV80mk3Gi6KY1owv4EB69LMymXXYC3 +yz1PR3qujioMF72wNMF16Pk1VXcoaUSknt3+Gqgcp7UdNnqP1o8mmiARls/ij5F F/KMlLPp3hpuLS/qVpr1kui/9G8bGzxzvdga1k9AY8AH1a1AhIOnK5W6PtGcBTU= =Trk/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
