Re: The appserver user and 5.2.3 deployment on panther.

Hsu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webobjects.admin
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The app instances are running as appserver because wotaskd is probably 
still running as appserver. wotaskd is probably still running as 
appserver because the launch script for wotaskd is setuid.

Karl

On Apr 27, 2004, at 3:46 PM, James E. Stead wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I recently updated a WO deployment machine to panther 10.3.3 with 
> webobjects 5.2.3, and installed the WebObjects script and 
> StartupParameters.plist recommended by Apple on the support site after 
> discovering that wo didn't start automatically any more. This worked 
> in getting wotaskd and JavaMonitor running on os start, but I continue 
> to have permission issues in the running apps.
>
> If I run the following (from the WebObjects startup script):
>
>                 # This set of invocations will launch wotaskd and
>                 # (optionally) Monitor as root.  This is less secure 
> than
>                 # starting as 'appserver'
>
>                 "$WOSERVICE" -appPath "$WOTASKD" 
> >/var/log/webobjects.log 2>&1 &
>
>                 # Uncomment the next line to start Monitor as root at 
> boot time
>                 "$WOSERVICE" -appPath "$WOJAVAMONITOR" -WOPort 56789 
> -WOAutoOpenInBrowser NO >>/var/log/webobjects.log 2>&1 &
>
> then wotaskd and JavaMonitor run as root, but the app instances still 
> run as appserver. I don't see anything in this script or 
> javawoservice.sh that indicates where that is coming from. Ths 
> instances run, but calls to lpr (via system) and other services fail.
>
> Anyone else having difficulties running their apps as appserver?
>
> Thanks!
> Jim
>
> James E. Stead
> 407.252.3321
> [email protected]
>
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