[plug] Tomcat 5.5 probs installing on Debian etch

[Arie Hol]

On 21 Jul 2008 at 11:50, Denis Brown wrote:

> Hello PLUG list members,
> 
> Trying to install Tomcat 5.5 including the -admin and -webapps packages 
on
> Debian etch.   Several websites report that it should Just Happen (tm)
> including this one...
> http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-setup-apache-tomcat-55-on-debian-
etch.ht
> ml
> 
> So armed with that knowledge:
> 1. aptitude install sun-java5-jdk without incident.   java - version
> reported the expected details. 2. aptitude install tomcat5.5        No
> apparent errors during installation. 3. aptitude install tomcat5.5-
admin  
>  Reported a problem stopping tomcat5.5 4. Tried to manually stop 
tomcat5.5
>    (/etc/init.d/tomcat55 stop)  Reported "not running".
> 
> The tried to manually start tomcat (/etc/init.d/tomcat55 start) which
> brings up the error <quote> Starting Tomcat servlet engine: 
tomcat5.5sh:
> /usr/sbin/rotatelogs: Permission denied <unquote>
> 
> Bit of Googling lead to a page where an Ubuntu user got it going by 
> adjusting permissions on the catalina.out file in 
> /var/lib/tomcat5.5/logs   ATM it is owned by tomcat:root   The Ubuntu
> article suggested making it owned by tomcat:nogroup but it reverts to
> tomcat:root
> 
> Also, doing a java - version now (after attempted installation of 
> tomcat5.5) I get 1.4.2 version, not the previously-seen 1.5 version.
> 

Hello Denis,

goto :

http://www.ibm.com/support/us/en/

In the "search" box at TOP of the page type in "tomcat" and click the 
search button --- you should get about 4,000 hits some of which may 
hopefully  prove helpful to you.


Regards Arie
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