[Dspace-general] dspace user / shared tomcat workers?

[Matthew Ballard]

I am using jsvc.exe on my system running on Linux, and I have run two 
different tomcat applications on the same server without any problems.  I 
currently use two Host directives with separate appBase locations, which I 
did to keep them separate and to be able to control access separately, but 
I didn't need to do so.

Matthew Ballard
Library Technologist
Otis College of Art and Design Library
mballard at otis.edu

At 05:54 AM 2/23/2005, you wrote:
>I'm in a bit of a conundrum and am wondering if anyone might be able
>to offer a suggestion. I noticed in the DSpace 1.2.1 documentation
>that there is a requirement such that DSpace needs to run as the same
>user as Tomcat (so one might want to install and run Tomcat as a user
>called 'dspace').
>
>This is problematic for me because I'm using my default Tomcat worker
>for more than just DSpace, and in fact I have Tomcat run by jsvc
>(which jsvc is a UNIX daemon launched by root and run by a user named
>"www" on Mac OS X). Is it generally a bad idea to share a default
>Tomcat installation (with its default worker instances) with DSpace
>and another application requiring Tomcat? Would it be better to have
>seperate Tomcat installations and thus workers (initially on the same
>machine but later it would be split out), one such installation for
>DSpace and another for my other application, or can they share and
>play well together under the same Tomcat install / worker set?
>
>Thank you for any suggestions.
>
>Sergio
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