Running Jakarta Tomcat 5 as a normal user
I downloaded and untared and ran tomcat as root and everything was fine. Then when I tried to run it as a normal user I got the following error:
java.net.BindException: Permission denied:80
The post above tells you why. It basically says that under Unix privileged ports can only run as root. Hence, tomcat under port 80 will not run as a normal user. It will run as root. Right now I'm running it on port 8080 which runs fine.
