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From: Ernst de Haan <ernst.dehaan@nl.wanadoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Debugging options for tomcat41ctl
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The only reason for this is that an rc.d script cannot be made suid.

Ernst


On maandag 15 december 2003 10:36, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2003/12/15 08:10), Ernst de Haan wrote:
> > > Is there a way to enable debugging on the Tomcat instance started by
> > > tomcat41ctl, or do I need to start Tomcat manually for that?
> >
> > You need to start it manually. The daemonctl program is in desperate 
> > need of improvement :=\
>
> I've asked this before but don't remember getting a response: what
> problem does the daemonctl program solve that pay for its limitations
> over a regular rc.d shell script?
>
> I'm not attacked the script; it seems to work very well.  I'm just
> wondering why we can't just use a rc.d script.  I first wondered when
> using the jboss port, which also uses daemonctl.  I just used a slightly
> modified version of the rc.d script distributed with jboss and it seemed
> to work fine.
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.