How To Install tomcat-jsvc.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-jsvc.noarch
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is tomcat-jsvc.noarch
Systemd service and wrapper scripts to start tomcat with jsvc, which allows tomcat to perform some privileged operations (e.g. bind to a port < 1024) and then switch identity to a non-privileged user.
We can use yum
to install tomcat-jsvc.noarch
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tomcat-jsvc.noarch.
Install tomcat-jsvc.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat-jsvc.noarch
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tomcat-jsvc.noarch
How To Uninstall tomcat-jsvc.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the tomcat-jsvc.noarch
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove tomcat-jsvc.noarch
tomcat-jsvc.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tomcat-jsvc.service
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-jsvc.noarch
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.