Information about the package, tomcat-jsvc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The tomcat-jsvc package is designed for, Apache jsvc wrapper for Apache Tomcat as separate service.
Package Name:
tomcat-jsvc
Summary:
Apache jsvc wrapper for Apache Tomcat as separate service
Description:
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.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
7.0.85
Release:
1.el6
Size:
15 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the tomcat-jsvc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install tomcat-jsvc
This command will install tomcat-jsvc on the server.
yum remove tomcat-jsvc
This command will un-install tomcat-jsvc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tomcat-jsvc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove tomcat-jsvc
This command will un-install tomcat-jsvc on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tomcat-jsvc when using the -y flag.
yum update tomcat-jsvc
This command will update tomcat-jsvc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tomcat-jsvc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update tomcat-jsvc
This command will update tomcat-jsvc to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tomcat-jsvc when using the -y flag.
yum info tomcat-jsvc
This command will show you core information about the tomcat-jsvc package.
yum deplist tomcat-jsvc
This command will show you the dependencies for tomcat-jsvc. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update tomcat-jsvc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on tomcat-jsvc. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.