I found this on the Redhat website and it is a known bug. It ioncludes the instructions on how to fix this. I am not a guru and don't know the commands. Can someone please help to figure out the command to change the user and group that can access that file.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Description of problem:
tomcat does not start: /var/log/tomcat5/cacalina.out holds:
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:
touch: kann „/usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out“ nicht berühren: Keine
Berechtigung
/usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 325: /usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out: Keine
Berechtigung
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tomcat5-5.5.25-1jpp.1.fc7
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install tomcat5
2. rm -rf /var/log/tomcat5/*
3. /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start
Actual results:
Tomcat doesn't start because root creates the file "/var/log/tomcat5/
catalina.out" and after tomcat switching to user tomcat, group tomcat it
looses access to "catalina.out".
Expected results:
The init script has to
- check if /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out exists
if not: create it
- check if owner is the one tomcat will run as
if not: change owner
- check if group is the one tomcat will run as
if not: change group
The init script does not do any of these checks.
Additional info:
--- tomcat5.old 2007-12-27 12:44:16.000000000 +0100
+++ tomcat5 2007-12-27 12:41:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -64,9 +64,16 @@
# Define the tomcat username
TOMCAT_USER="${TOMCAT_USER:-tomcat}"
+# Define the tomcat group
+TOMCAT_GROUP="${TOMCAT_GROUP:-tomcat}"
+
# Define the tomcat log file
TOMCAT_LOG="${TOMCAT_LOG:-/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out}"
+test -e $TOMCAT_LOG || touch $TOMCAT_LOG
+chown $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_GROUP $TOMCAT_LOG
+
+
RETVAL="0"
# remove when the RHEL and FC daemon functions converge
The same problem is with
- Fedora 7
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 8.90
- CentOS 4+
- CentOS 5, 5.1
- RHEL 5, 5.1
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