installed tomcat manually

[Markus Schönhaber]

thufir:

> Just thought I'd ask here, as that seems to be the upshot.  I followed:
> 
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/installing-tomcat-6-on-ubuntu/
> 
> which seems to have worked fine.

Although I'd also recommend to use the upstream Tomcat package, you 
should be aware that if you're using the init scripts given on the above 
site you will run Tomcat as root. Not a good idea.

Regards
   mks