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Mark,

On 11/20/14 4:09 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:
> 
> 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.

Run as root? No thanks. Perhaps SELinux will allow a non-root user to
bind to low ports, but "normal" Linux does not.

>> 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.

True. But auto-restart is sometimes better than getting a page. ;)

>> 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.

+1

>> 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.

+1

- -chris
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