Re: [Treebase-devel] Treebase-dev:6666 status

[Rutger V. <rut...@gm...>]

>> The environment for this user should be setup from scratch instead of
>> copied over from an existing user's home dir.
>
> Yes. Rutger, are the instructions for that now complete, including any
> Mesquite environment variables?

Yes. It's on the wiki, there's also a file with the same variables in
/home/rvosa/vars

>> BTW, I tired to start Rutger's instance of tomcat with sudo this morning
>> and was not able to because it needed some environment variables to start.
>> Will this be necessary on production? I would prefer not. I usually put
>> those variables in tomcat5.conf or in the catalina.sh script.
>
> It sounds like we need to fix that too so they are indeed part of the tomcat
> startup configuration. Is that part of the documented instructions above?

Not yet. The configuration that is being suggested here is different
from how I did it. I approached it as a programmer wanting to have all
the required variables set in the shell, so I can run scripts, launch
standalone mesquite, etc. What Jon is suggesting is a more
sysadmin-oriented approach where everything is scoped inside tomcat so
that there is no hidden "magic" in the outside environment. I guess
the consensus is that that suggestion is better, so what we should
probably do is set it up on tre...@tr..., then
update the wiki.

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