[lug] iptables redirection

[George Sexton]

Hugh Brown wrote:
>
> I thought that with tomcat 5 there was a jsvc wrapper that would allow 
> you to bind on port 80 and then drop privileges (this is vague 
> memories off reading some brief documentation).
Thanks. I looked at jsvc, and it seems to be the least of all evils. It 
lets me bind to port 80 without having to be root.
>
> Would the overhead of Apache/mod_jk be less than changing the code? 
> With tomcat 4, I believe apache/mod_jk is the approach people use for 
> allowing tomcat to run unprivileged while still retaining the benefit 
> of running on privileged ports.
I'm running a really specialized application, where Apache/mod_jk would 
just be pure overhead. It would be simpler and more efficient to just 
remove the requirement from the kernel, and run a custom kernel.
>
> Hugh
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