Found a solution:
I had installed Tomcat through the Ubuntu Synaptic Package manager. It would
seem this was not a healthy install, because I just uninstalled it and
installed Tomcat 5.5 manually and everything worked perfectly. What the
problem was I never figured out since the install was
I'm using Tomcat 5.0.30 running on Ubuntu Linux (6.06).
I've made a small webapp which runs fine under Tomcat on Windows, but on
Linux I've got a problem with log4j.
I've put commons-logging-1.1.jar and log4j-1.2.13.jar in the webapp libs
directory ($CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib). In
