Dear Emmanuel, Sorry for my previous outbursts. I was wrong.
Your fix (chmod-ing just Catalina, not localhost) is fine: if you do not chmod localhost, then there is no issue even if localhost is replaced by a symlink pointing somewhere. However... will tomcat still "work"? On my machine, I have one XML file /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost/mapleta.xml in there, for the one application(?) that is installed. I guess it was tomcat that put it there: then tomcat needs write access to localhost. Maybe /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost is to be "delivered" writable from the DEB package, the ownership only to be fixed in postinst? In the current DEB, that directory is not group-writable. Could you kindly explain how this all works. Thanks, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia