On Feb 16, 2007 03:18 PM, Markus=?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=F6nhaber?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > > From: Tom Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: IOException writing to > > > /usr/share/tomcat5/conf/tomcat-users.xml.new > > > > > > Bizaarly tomcat wants a file called tomcat-users.xml.new > > > when I use tomcat-users.xml? What is that about? > > > > Tomcat always updates tomcat-users.xml during startup, so the > > directory > > it's in must be write-enabled for the Tomcat userid. (It actually > > writes the .new file, then renames that to remove the .new > > extension.) > > One can tell Tomcat to not touch the tomcat-users.xml by setting > the "readonly"-attribute of the UserDatabase Resource to "true", i. e. > like > that: > <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" > type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" > description="User database that can be updated and saved" > factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory" > pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" > readonly="true"/> Thanks to you both, but I still get the exception. Firstly I tried changing the directory permissions chown tomcat4 /etc/tomcat5 --- no luck there chmod 777 /etc/tomcat5 ---- also not working on restart I set the directory permissions back and tried to make the resource readonly but still get the exception. Am I missing something fundamental here? t. Powered by Open-Xchange.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
