Thus the request for clarification on what our good friend Scott means by 'completely'. If access to writable disk is not available, the whole shootin' match is off...

I think we agree, we just said it in different ways ;-)

-chris

>
> Howdy,
> Note, however, that all FileLoggers have a configurable
> directory. The
> workDir for host and context is configurable as well. The
> system.out/system.err destination is set to
> $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out in
> $CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh and can
> be changed at will.
>
> So a more accurate answer might be:
> - You need to modify the above in your server.xml and
> catalina.sh before
> burning your copy of tomcat to CD
> - Whatever directory you use for your logs and workDir (which
> is required
> by the servlet spec, as I said earlier) needs to be off the
> CD-ROM, but
> accessible and writeable.
>
> Yoav Shapira
>
>
> \On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Halstead, Chris wrote:
>
> > Clarify 'completely'. If you have no access to writable
> disk you'll be unable to produce logs or persist context data
> under ./work. I suppose that you could do some fancy stuff
> with a RAMdisk, assuming that you are running on an OS that
> supports this. With an out of the box binary set you
> wouldn't be successful...catalina.sh will fail when it can't
> create ./logs/catalina.out.
> >
> > -chris
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: samckins [mailto:scott.a.mckinstry@(protected)]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:30 AM
> > > To: tomcat-user@(protected)
> > > Subject: running tomcat from CD
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a way to run Tomcat completely off of a CD-ROM?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Scott
> > >
> >
>

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