installed tomcat manually

[thufir]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:56:46 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:

>> 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.


Yeah, thanks.

What's wrong with the ubuntu distribution of Tomcat, though?  It would seem
to a novice such as myself to be a dead simple thing to automate.  On
the tomcat list it's a know problem, but the "why" is unknown.


-Thufir