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Re: Tomcat locked down



Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
O Bryan Maynard έγραψε στις Jul 13, 2005 :


I know this is a simple thing. . . ;-)

I installed Tomcat 5.0.30 from the ports and just entered: make install clean.

Tomcat seems to run fine, but i can't do anything with it! My user account "Bryan", but Tomcat runs under user "www" so I have to either go to a terminal or log into KDE as root to do anything with Tomcat. Aside from being annoying, the problem with this is that I've also installed sysdeo tomcat plugin for eclipse. When I am logged in a root, I can start, stop, and restart Tomcat just fine. But when I'm logged in as Bryan no such luck. I've tried running Eclipse under "root", but I get an su error when I try that.


/etc/rc.d, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ tasks are not to be stopped and started
by anyone. Only root can do this.


I also cannot drop webapps nto the webapps forder. This is a problem because I am using Apache Axis and need to put Axis' stuff (jars and such) in the webapps folder. I can't keep switching back and forth between root and Bryan, and certainly can't do all my dev work as root!

I know there's a simple solution to all this, I just don't know what it is! Thanks for all your help. . .

Bryan



IMO, just try to get a little more familiar with the whole system,
and i am sure you will find all the solutions you need.

In KDE one good way of organizing your workstation is
configuring 2,3,4,etc... virtual desktops.
Then name each desktop after a name that describes
the work done in it.

So you could have an admin virtual desktop (with all xterms as root),
a development desktop (with terms as bryan), an internet desktop
(kmail, mozilla,etc...), and so forth.

Once you get used to it you will find it very handy.
<ctrl><TAB> switches between them.


What I usually do on my development workstations is to chown -R the tomcat/jboss/eclipse/etc. directories to my own userid. I do appreciate the default userid/permissions on server installations, however.

Cheers,

Panagiotis