Bug#1060381: tomcat10: catalina.out is not recreated after deletion

[Markus Koschany]

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[already CCed the submitter but forgot to add the bug report]

Hello Daniel,

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:42:34 +0100 Daniel von Obernitz
 wrote:
> Package: tomcat10
> Version: 10.1.6-1+deb12u1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@security.debian.org
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> when you stop tomcat10.service and delete the /var/log/tomcat10/catalina.out,
the file will not be recreated after the next tomcat10.service start.

[...]

I don't understand the problem here. You deliberately deleted catalina.out.
What stops you from using

touch /var/log/tomcat10/catalina.out

to recreate it?

Regards,

Markus



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Bug#1060381: tomcat10: catalina.out is not recreated after deletion

[Daniel von Obernitz]

Package: tomcat10
Version: 10.1.6-1+deb12u1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@security.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

when you stop tomcat10.service and delete the /var/log/tomcat10/catalina.out, 
the file will not be recreated after the next tomcat10.service start.


I tested the following scenarios:

Install tomcat10 package - stop tomcat10.service - delete catalina.out - 
restart tomcat10.service = catalina.out is NOT created anymore.

Purge tomcat10 package and all dependencies - reinstall tomcat10 package = 
catalina.out is present again.


When the rsyslog package is also installed, the catalina.out is created again 
if rsyslog.service and tomcat10.service are both restarted. But since we are 
not using rsyslog anymore I have not found a way to recreate the catalina.out 
yet.

Best regards
Daniel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tomcat10 depends on:
ii  systemd [systemd-tmpfiles]  252.17-1~deb12u1
ii  sysvinit-utils [lsb-base]   3.06-4
ii  tomcat10-common 10.1.6-1+deb12u1
ii  ucf 3.0043+nmu1

Versions of packages tomcat10 recommends:
ii  libtcnative-1  1.2.35-1

Versions of packages tomcat10 suggests:
pn  tomcat10-admin 
pn  tomcat10-docs  
pn  tomcat10-examples  
pn  tomcat10-user  

-- no debconf information

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