tomcat installation

fachhoch@gmail.com · 05-10-2012, 03:43 PM

I installed tomcat by creating a user tomcat and tomcat folder is owned by user tomcat.

My app whihc I will deploy in tomcat write some logs and it needs some folders for file based persistance.
so all it needs is some directories.
as I installed tomcat for user tomcat when my application starts up the folders it will use should also be owned by tomcat ?

Kustom42 · 05-10-2012, 03:45 PM

by default yes, you can specify which user tomcat runs under in the tomcat config files. Default user/group is tomcat.

fachhoch@gmail.com · 05-10-2012, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kustom42

by default yes, you can specify which user tomcat runs under in the tomcat config files. Default user/group is tomcat.

the good practive is to create these folders in tomcat home directory?
when I tried

cat /etc/passwd

it returned

tomcat:x:501:502::/home/tomcat:/usr/sbin/nologin

is tomcat home /home/tomcat ?
what is /usr/sbin/nologin ?

Kustom42 · 05-10-2012, 03:56 PM

the last field containing the nologin is the default shell for the user. The /home/tomcat is the tomcat users home directory.