Re: A custom profiling security manager, and an anomaly

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Petrovic
For those interested, I believe I got this working, although I'm not yet certain precisely what I did differently that made the difference. Details of the custom security profiler are here http://www.petrovic.org/content/SecMgrTutorial/sm.html . On 11/5/06, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL P

Re: catalina.sh "==" artifact

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Petrovic
You make a good point. I should have included the text. On 11/6/06, Steffen Heil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sorry, but 5 answers of the kind "RTFM" are simply not nice. It's just a sentence, so here it goes: > If you use > > java -Djava.security.manager -Djava.security.policy==someURL

Re: catalina.sh "==" artifact

2006-11-06 Thread Mark Petrovic
If you search for "==" here, it is revealed http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/PolicyFiles.html On 11/6/06, Gregor Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hm, took a look at the jdk-docs at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/java.html, and it says [quote]==

A custom profiling security manager, and an anomaly

2006-11-05 Thread Mark Petrovic
In the course of teaching myself how to write a security manager that reports to which resources an application wants runtime access, I have run into something I do not understand. I struggled with whether to start here or on a Sun security forum or on the Tomcat dev list. Given the problem may

Re: catalina.sh "==" artifact

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Petrovic
Aha. Thank you. On 11/3/06, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Petrovic wrote: > I don't think this is a serious issue, if an issue at all. But I point it > out just in case. > > There's a "==" in the catalina.sh script,

catalina.sh "==" artifact

2006-11-03 Thread Mark Petrovic
I don't think this is a serious issue, if an issue at all. But I point it out just in case. There's a "==" in the catalina.sh script, in this case in Tomcat 5.5.17. E.g. -Djava.security.policy=="$CATALINA_BASE"/conf/catalina.policy \ where I believe one would normally expect to find a si

Re: chroot, jsvc, and catalina.out

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Petrovic
On 10/18/06, Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mark Petrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: chroot, jsvc, and catalina.out > > Something about the result of chroot'ing is not quite right, as when I > modify the invocation above to not

Re: chroot, jsvc, and catalina.out

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Petrovic
/commons-logging-api.jar org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap exit $? Something about the result of chroot'ing is not quite right, as when I modify the invocation above to not use the chroot, output to catalina.outappears. Mark On 10/18/06, Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From:

Re: chroot, jsvc, and catalina.out

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Petrovic
Maybe I'm missing the key language in that link. Mark On 10/18/06, Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Mark Petrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: chroot, jsvc, and catalina.out > > Recall normally when Tomcat starts that it writes information to

chroot, jsvc, and catalina.out

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Petrovic
Good day. I'm three+ hours into chroot'd jsvc odyssey that leaves me baffled. My eyes are looking but they seem to have failed to see. Recall normally when Tomcat starts that it writes information to catalina.out. However, when I run Tomcat as chroot'd with jsvc I can see a successful open("ca

Re: Tomcat 5.5 Context Files

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Petrovic
Incidentally, I, too, have found the "path" and "docBase" attributes to be tricky in Tomcat. I fiddle with them until I get the desired result (ugh), but the language describing them has never helped me much in figuring out why what works actually works. On 5/29/06, M

Re: Tomcat 5.5 Context Files

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Petrovic
Hi. Context fragments can also be put in your webapp's META-INF directory, per the 4th bullet item here http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html E.g., pluto:PGCRM> jar tf dist/crmrpc.war |head -3 META-INF/ META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/context.xml where context.xml contains

Re: Classloader bug?

2006-05-22 Thread Mark Petrovic
I remember long ago I had a similar problem, where it appeared that a jar of jars was "working' as you basically describe, but for others running my code, it didn't "work". The problem: I had overlooked the fact that during my runtime invocation, the jars were actually on the classpath via overs

Re: Tomcat: The Definitive Guide Question

2006-05-18 Thread Mark Petrovic
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/index.html On 5/18/06, Frank Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Can you provide a direct link(s) for that Tomcat online documentation? Any information is appreciated. Thank you. fjm On 06 May 2006, at 13:56, Gaël Lams wrote: >> I read "Pro

Integrating a JXTA network into a Tomcat hosted servlet

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Petrovic
Some of the readership may find this interesting. http://www.petrovic.org/blog/?p=124 wherein a JXTA p2p network is started in a servlet's init() method. JXTA is an interesting area of Java programming, and affords an open source p2p development platform. The example, which draws on earlier id

Re: Application configuration: how to read files from a web application

2006-05-17 Thread Mark Petrovic
hin the application? Asaf Lahav VP R&D, Prima Grid LTD. Cellular: 972-54-4717955 Phone: 972-3-6540255 Fax: 972-3-6540254 -Original Message- From: Mark Petrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:02 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Application co

Application configuration: how to read files from a web application

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Petrovic
A few people in the last few days on the Tomcat Users have essentially asked: How do I read a file from disk from within my web application, and furthermore, how do I declaratively configure the name of that file so as to keep its path out of my code? It's a common question, and there is a good s

Re: Problem with starting tomcat

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Petrovic
It looks like there may be a problem with your admin.xml file, but I'm not sure. Maybe you can post it. On 5/16/06, Kalpana HV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi People, I am new to Java/Webserver. I have installed JDK1.4.0 and have copied jakarta-tomcat-4.1.31 to my system(Win 2K). I have set JAV

Re: Determining file locations in tomcat

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Petrovic
-Original Message- From: Mark Petrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 5/15/2006 9:07 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Determining file locations in tomcat You can put the path in an in the application's web.xml . Then retrieve it at runtime in your servlet.init() method us

Re: Determining file locations in tomcat

2006-05-15 Thread Mark Petrovic
You can put the path in an in the application's web.xml. Then retrieve it at runtime in your servlet.init() method using getInitParameter("path"). On 5/15/06, Calvin Deiterich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to place a file(.xsl) in with a tomcat servlet application and I do not want to har

Re: Application Configuration

2006-05-14 Thread Mark Petrovic
ut the xml files and what would be the best way to read it? Asaf Lahav VP R&D, Prima Grid LTD. Cellular: 972-54-4717955 Phone: 972-3-6540255 Fax: 972-3-6540254 -Original Message----- From: Mark Petrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:10 PM To: Tomcat

Re: chroot'ing Tomcat and the Brittain BadInputFilterValve

2006-05-13 Thread Mark Petrovic
s executed. Note that the script creates a conf/server.xml that is essentially the default, but with comments pruned for easy viewing. It also creates conf/tomcat-users.xml and /etc/init.d/tomcat. Hopefully this will help someone working on this problem. On 5/11/06, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROT

Tomcat 5.5.17 server.xml: constraints on Engine name attribute?

2006-05-12 Thread Mark Petrovic
Good day. As a glutton for punishment, I pruned the comments out of the server.xmlfile so I could take it in with one glance. While I was at it, I also changed the Engine name="Catalina" attribute to something else ("X"), and found that I received a 404 Not Found when I went to login to the Mana

chroot'ing Tomcat and the Brittain BadInputFilterValve

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Petrovic
Good day. After putting this off for too long, I finally got around to experimenting with chroot'ing Tomcat. My travails may help someone going through the same process http://www.petrovic.org/blog/?p=126 Same story for finally deploying the J. Brittain BadInputFilterValve under Tomcat 5.5.12

Re: Application Configuration

2006-05-08 Thread Mark Petrovic
You can put those types of resources in your .war file and access them as "resources". servlet.getClass().getResource("xmlfile.xml"); type of scheme. On 5/8/06, Asaf Lahav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody, I still need help on this. Please read below… *Asaf Lahav* *VP R&D, Prim

Re: Living a Tomcat life with the catalina.policy file: policy file analysis tools

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Petrovic
I got to thinking about this tool problem. Here is a a bit of basic work on a tool to generate a catalina.policy file. Time will tell if it's useful. Someone may have already solved this problem, but it's all fun. http://www.petrovic.org/blog/?p=134 On 5/7/06, Mark Petrovic <[EM

Living a Tomcat life with the catalina.policy file: policy file analysis tools

2006-05-07 Thread Mark Petrovic
Good day. This is a newbie question. Having spent a bit of time manually editing via trial and error my catalina.policy file just right so my webapp would run leaves me wondering whether there is a tool that can be responsibly used to show you what the policy file should look like if the app is