From owner-freebsd-java Wed May 15 22:33:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from guinness.syncrontech.com (guinness.syncrontech.com [62.71.8.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BEE37B40C for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:33:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux (coffee.syncrontech.com [62.71.8.37]) by guinness.syncrontech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4G5Xc058608 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 08:33:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ari.suutari@syncrontech.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Ari Suutari Organization: Syncron Tech Oy To: java@freebsd.org Subject: tomcat ports and daemonctl.c suggestion Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:32:25 +0300 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200205160832.25618.ari.suutari@syncrontech.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Would it be a good idea to change daemonctl program (which us used to start tomcat installed via ports) so that instead of editing the source automatically during port install (for adding information about JAVA_HOME, APP_HOME etc) these values would be written to a .conf file in /usr/local/etc ? Then, it would be easy the change these values after installation if necessary (to add jvm parameters, to change to different jdk etc) (If daemonctl is installed as tomcat4ctl, the config file could automagically be tomcat4ctl.conf) I volunteer to do the coding if this makes sense. =09Ari S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message