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 portion of the stacktrace. If the entire stacktrace is needed I can post. I have noticed that when I start Tomcat as root several new files are created in the alf_data directory so I assume there must be some where in the configuration that specifies which user to use when creating/updating files in this directory.
Our other Tomcat instances run using this non-root account so this is not an issue.
Environment:
Alfresco Version: Community Edition 2.0.0 build 185 schema 38
Tomcat Version: 5.5.17
OS: Linux - RedHat Enterprise v4 update 2
15:40:02,816 ERROR [util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction] Transaction didn't commit
org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: Failed to get writer
at org.alfresco.repo.content.filestore.FileContentStore.getWriter(FileContentStore.java:276)
at org.alfresco.repo.content.RoutingContentService.getTempWriter(RoutingContentService.java:396)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerImpl2.indexProperty(LuceneIndexerImpl2.java:1632)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerImpl2.createDocuments(LuceneIndexerImpl2.java:1277)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerImpl2.indexImpl(LuceneIndexerImpl2.java:1170)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerImpl2.indexImpl(LuceneIndexerImpl2.java:1158)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerImpl2.flushPending(LuceneIndexerImpl2.java:961)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerImpl2.prepare(LuceneIndexerImpl2.java:732)
at org.alfresco.repo.search.impl.lucene.LuceneIndexerAndSearcherFactory2.prepare(LuceneIndexerAndSearcherFactory2.java:706)
at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.AlfrescoTransactionSupport$TransactionSynchronizationImpl.beforeCommit(AlfrescoTransactionSupport.java:599)
at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.triggerBeforeCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:657)
