topic Run Alfresco Using a non-root account in Alfresco Archive

Run Alfresco Using a non-root account

dbrands — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:11:31 GMT

I need to run the Tomcat instance supporting Alfresco using a non-root account. When I attempt this the Alfresco application fails to start. I have all relevant Alfresco files and directories owned my this user but, during startup the error below is encountered. For brevity I have only pasted a p

Re: Run Alfresco Using a non-root account

dbrands — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:47:50 GMT

Solved.
Turned out the directory specified by java.io.tmpdir had some files owned by root. Once those files were cleaned up the Alfresco application started with Tomcat running as a non-root account.

Re: Run Alfresco Using a non-root account

mikeh — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:47:56 GMT

Thanks for the follow-up post with your solution.

Mike