Reuben, it's not obvious in the init script but the proper place is
/etc/default/tomcat6 which includes a JAVA_OPT line, which actually
clobber the one in the init script due to the "if -z JAVA_OPT". This
actually bit me recently due to a tomcat update.
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Also, by the way usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ is inside data.tar.gz in the
deb, and the postinst has this weird line:
cp -r /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/default_root
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT
Could we include as /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT in data.tar.gz and
leave off /usr/share/tomcat6/web
version 6.0.24-2ubuntu1, out of the lucid main repos today.
Get:1 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu/ lucid/main tomcat6
6.0.24-2ubuntu1 [30.1kB]
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tomcat6 has two webapps/ directories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575303
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tomcat6
tomcat6 creates both /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ and
/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ for some reason. Since the
CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/tomcat6 the first /usr/share is not used at all
and it confused me! Please remove /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ from
For what it's worth, you can apt-get install jsvc
and then use a simple init script to run apache.org tomcat
as tomcat user not root. We have been doing this for many
years to run tomcat and other custom java apps as
servers. A simple example jsvc init script is here:
http://staff.washington.edu
