Bug#919638: solr-tomcat: Permission problems after update to tomcat9

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> writes:

> Le 18/01/2019 à 07:19, Michael Welsh Duggan a écrit :
>
>> I have no idea why it fails to write the lock file.
>
> It probably happens because tomcat9 is sandboxed to write only into its
> own directory. You'll have to tweak the systemd configuration to allow
> Tomcat to write into the solr directory (with the ReadWritePaths directive).
>
> The solr-tomcat package is rather old now, I'm tempted to remove it.
> Upstream has moved away from supporting deployments as a web
> application, Solr now embeds it own web server (Jetty). We wouldn't have
> this kind of issue with the latest versions.

I'm not attached to the package.  I use solr as a FTS backend for
dovecot.  If you have a suggestion for how to set this up using the
debian packages without using tomcat, I'm not using tomcat for anything
else.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i at md5i.com)