jsvc.exec error: Service exit with a return value of 143

[spyghost]

hi,

i am trying to run tomcat as a standalone webserver to run in standard port 80 and 443 as a non-root user.

i followed the instructions in the tomcat website.

the application starts up fine, HOWEVER, whenever i shut it down, i always get this messages appended in catalina.err

jsvc.exec error: Service exit with a return value of 143

is this a source code problem? has anyone ever circumvented this problem?

 

[sedj]

Tomcat version ?
JRE version ?
OS type ?

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[spyghost]

tomcat: 5.5.4
jre: 1.5.0
os: sunos 5.9 (solaris 9 sparc)

 

[sedj]

This seems to be a rare problem on UNIX & Linux machines :

http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=...ervice+exit+with+a+return+value+of+143+&meta=

I wouldn't worry about it - it seems to be a problem only when shutting down.
Strange though, we run Tomcat 5.0.28 on SDK 1.4.1 on same solaris OS with no problems.

Have you tried a different JRE & Tomcat version ?

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[spyghost]

hmmm... what did you use for compilation? versions?

 

[sedj]

compile what exactly ? I gave you the relevant versions that we run above ...

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[spyghost]

what i mean is the gcc, autoconf, m4, and the others... ???

or did you use the cc from solaris?

 

[sedj]

GCC ? Its Java, not C !

You cannot compile the C sections of the JRE as they are closed source - so you can't mean that, and Tomcat is entirely written in Java, so you can't use a CC for that either.

I'm not sure what you mean ...

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[spyghost]

ah... what i meant was the compilation of the jsvc source... what are the versions that you used for compiling it?

 

[sedj]

Ahhhh.... finally it becomes clear !
No, we don't use jsvc

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[spyghost]

ok... so how do you deal with running tomcat at ports 80 and 443 as non-root if you do not use jsvc?

 

[sedj]

We don't. We have an apache front end listening on those ports.


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[spyghost]

ah ok... i just thought so... in our case, we can actually do away with the apache since the web site is almost entirely java driven... only around 2% are html files... the rest are jsp/servlet.

anyway, i would consider implementing apache for this matter... from what i can see, the only purpose of apache (in our scenario) is only to listen to ports 80 and 443.

 

[sedj]

Why can you not start Tomcat as root ?

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[spyghost]

its better not to run it as non-root due to some security issues

 

[sedj]

why ?
Name me one security hole that can affect a system's resources or file permissions that could be exploited purely by running Tomcat as root rather than a non-root user (unless your webapp allowed execution of system level command via a web page - which I kind of guess it won't).

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