This is another reason why separating CATALINA_HOME from CATALINA_BASE is a good thing.
Dream * Excel * Explore * Inspire Jon McAlexander Infrastructure Engineer Asst Vice President He/His Middleware Product Engineering Enterprise CIO | EAS | Middleware | Infrastructure Solutions 8080 Cobblestone Rd | Urbandale, IA 50322 MAC: F4469-010 Tel 515-988-2508 | Cell 515-988-2508 jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 4:57 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Tomcat ownership changed spontaneously > > Joel, > > On 4/5/22 10:33, Joel Griffith wrote: > > I'm running a webapp under Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04. We run Tomcat as > > an ad-hoc system user who owns the Tomcat installation files. > > > > On Friday, the app stopped working. Over the weekend, I determined > > that the problem was that something had reset the ownership of the > > Tomcat installation files to the 'tomcat' user so that the webapp no > > longer had permission to access its own files. I had to spend a > > couple of days poring through my notes to figure out what ownership > > was required for what files and then manually change everything that > needed it back to our ad-hoc user. > > > > Since this change affected only Tomcat files, I can only guess that an > > update from Tomcat altered the ownership of these files. Did any > > recent Tomcat update change file and folder ownership of the Tomcat > > installation to force them to the 'tomcat' user? > > The Tomcat distribution is just a tarball. When you untar it, you get the > current-user as the owner of the files. > > Tomcat has no installer for *NIX systems. > > If you use a third-party package for Tomcat (e.g. apt-get), you may be seeing > something coming from /them/. did you recently get any new updates from > Ubuntu or any other repositories you use? > > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
