The proper way to do this kind of permissions change in a way that
persists future package upgrades is to override permissions through
dpkg-statoverride. The tomcat6 package is thought to honor such
overrides properly, please reopen the bug if you still have issues when
using the debian way to do
** Changed in: tomcat6 (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = New
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tomcat6 package changes ownership of directories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557300
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I've just added the following stat overrides on a system that had not
yet upgraded to the latest tomcat6 package:
dpkg-statoverride --add cms cms 750 /var/log/tomcat6/
dpkg-statoverride --add cms cms 755 /var/lib/tomcat6/temp/
dpkg-statoverride --add cms cms 750 /var/cache/tomcat6