This got fixed in tomcat5.5 and tomcat6. from http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-java/trunk/tomcat5.5/debian/tomcat5.5.init?op=file&rev=0&sc=0:
# Clean up and set permissions on required files find "$CATALINA_BASE"/temp/ -mindepth 1 -exec rm -fr {} -- David Pashley da...@davidpashley.com Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers