On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Léa Massiot <lmhe...@orange.fr> wrote:

> Hello and thank you for reading my post.
>
> My question is about how can Tomcat be started at boot time as a non-root
> user.
>
> The OS is Debian Wheezy.
>
> Below is what I did already:
>
> root> chown -R tomcat7.tomcat7 /opt/tomcat7/
>
> I created a new file: "/etc/init.d/tomcat7"
> Owner and owner group: root
> Permissions: 755
> -------------------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/sh
>
> export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_67/
> case $1 in
>
> start)
>   /bin/bash /opt/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh
>   ;;
>
> stop)
>   /bin/bash /opt/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh
>   ;;
>
> restart)
>   /bin/bash /opt/tomcat7/bin/shutdown.sh
>   /bin/bash /opt/tomcat7/bin/startup.sh
>   ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> I ran:
> root> update-rc.d tomcat7 defaults
>
> Added to /etc/rc0.d/    : K01tomcat7
> Added to /etc/rc1.d/    : K01tomcat7
> Added to /etc/rc2.d/    : S17tomcat7
> Added to /etc/rc3.d/    : S17tomcat7
> Added to /etc/rc4.d/    : S17tomcat7
> Added to /etc/rc5.d/    : S17tomcat7
> Added to /etc/rc6.d/    : K01tomcat7
>
> At boot time, tomcat is started as root.
> How can it be started as tomcat7?
>

What about this?

   http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon

Dan


>
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>
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