How To Install tomcat-jsvc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-jsvc
on CentOS 7.
What is tomcat-jsvc
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
or dnf
to install tomcat-jsvc
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tomcat-jsvc.
Install tomcat-jsvc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat-jsvc
using yum
by running the following command:
Install tomcat-jsvc on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tomcat-jsvc
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall tomcat-jsvc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tomcat-jsvc
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tomcat-jsvc
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.