-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Léa,
On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, Léa Massiot wrote: > Thank you for your answers. > > @MarkEggers Thank you very much for sharing. > >> Christopher Schultz wrote There are reasons to use jsvc, but the >> ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them. > > What are these reasons according to you (apart from running Tomcat > as a daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at the time)? Several I can think of without spending too much time: 1. (by a large margin) Allows access to ports < 1024 2. Automatic re-start of JVM process if the JVM exits 3. Control JVM process by sending signal to parent process 4. Enable rotation of stdout/stderr files > Also Excerpt from here: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon > "jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it to > switch to another user after the daemon initialization is complete. > This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non privileged user > while still being able to use privileged ports." This is just a note about additional features, certainly not the primary feature of jsvc. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUbkrZAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYjFAP/195ZdVNNt3h8nsR1/p2N5Lo 72pU7Zc15spYaQo3G7AfbvF/JMX4uAeR5nxHtvegU8YoIz+W8smb4MiipOfqFgn9 CBr/+3hnu9kzsFkjMxj62mT8fPtdM/dYG6Er52aiSrjOCC62wPyOq7I4gf9RV8k/ NmbkQugOrX1ZOyzGaHKSZODZHIGZSErW6jZQ8XC1K7AEjfez5enrAElkJ41h3MAx 02NeCNvs9sub/HMk2PCSSXpV4zGj7sUehc2Q/cNqHnVSh55EnENwJUZqpaP/4t6G rkNGYeEW31r1YTfTtDtCDTMz9bcVFWcbB8tJBXz+JaYtxI+xmcK9U4FBdKIZLDw5 iF1IVJbAmbL6ANhnMBwlZEtwDtSfnDEpQCsVrTD7p/kbdW/wOnNpWzbJ14+bhBRi wsK+kiYNk0dqMByu81Yfx1e1ISByXydu+M96CxxJi+zTBwcg4qSEUQke9nfW0HNF YlgOVxPdHnjXHeid7xaTBjmqpFkwMSxguiaIvn6hO20aUo+jtOrz3YCNWIPC+Aih Da1LLhNzjVtxparX1cmsh5Xp/KsSe1lRP3AWmBRVe69tpUxHYjtr/ag8a5Mw5YOz Hd7Uc00irwWy/eewOJpDnVmLvnEhVwCSwJ8KQ4p3SyqLkyFSAlabic7A/4yRed/7 sm+Kwyvimw/b7MjTL2Nr =pYTG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
