Thanks Rainer!
Meanwhile what I did was to give root access to the conf folder.That worked
as a charm.
Right/Owner are
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/tomcat
chown -R root:root /usr/local/tomcat/bin
chown -R root:root /usr/local/tomcat/common
chown -R root:root /usr/local/tomcat/conf
Interesting, Thanks Darryl for sharing. So you run 5.5.9 and no problem huh
?
What's the access given for the tomcat structure ? I'm interested in
particular on that conf folder. I can run it fine too but not as root and
root has no write access to the conf folder. How is your set up ?
For some reason during startup tomcat writes (!) the file
tomcat-users.xml. It does it in the way that it writes to
tomcat-users.xml.new and then renames that file to tomcat-users.xml. At
least that's what was in the 5.0 code. I assume that didn't change with
5.5.
As a consequence the user
