I have a set up where tomcat is supposed to start on boot via an rc
shell script on a Linux system (tomcat 4.1.18). I have this
intermittent failure mode where tomcat fails to start up on reboot.
I can _always_ trigger this failure by deleting all tomcat log files,
and then rebooting. After
Sounds to me like a permissions/environment problem. For example,
starting Tomcat as root manually, but then the script tries to start
tomcat as some non-root user. If Tomcat starts as root, log files are
owned by root and non-root users cannot write to them. It should throw
an error
