Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> writes: > Le 18/01/2019 à 07:19, Michael Welsh Duggan a écrit : > >> I have no idea why it fails to write the lock file. > > It probably happens because tomcat9 is sandboxed to write only into its > own directory. You'll have to tweak the systemd configuration to allow > Tomcat to write into the solr directory (with the ReadWritePaths directive). > > The solr-tomcat package is rather old now, I'm tempted to remove it. > Upstream has moved away from supporting deployments as a web > application, Solr now embeds it own web server (Jetty). We wouldn't have > this kind of issue with the latest versions.
I'm not attached to the package. I use solr as a FTS backend for dovecot. If you have a suggestion for how to set this up using the debian packages without using tomcat, I'm not using tomcat for anything else. -- Michael Welsh Duggan (m...@md5i.com)