Hi,

being root (for these tests) should give me enough permissions. I have
no problems creating sym-links at all (with or without #) although my
test-case involves no symbolic links.

Any specific test?

kind regards,
   Markus

Alexey Solofnenko wrote:
> Are you allowed to create symbolic links with normal names?
> 
> - Alexey.
> 
> Markus Schiegl wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> starting Tomcat from a path containing a pound sign (#) somewhere
>> results in a ClassNotFoundException.
>>
>> I've checked this with
>> - Solaris Sparc/X86 + Mac OS X
>> - Java 5 + 6
>> - Tomcat 5.5.23 + 6.0.13
>>
>> example:
>> - mkdir /export/home/markus/tomcat#1
>> - extract tomcat within this directory
>> - export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java (JDK 6)
>> - /export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/startup.sh
>>   or
>>   cd /export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin ; ./startup.sh
>>
>> output from catalina.sh with the java call (added set -x to catalina.sh
>> - i.e. no problem of the calling script omitting something)
>>
>> /usr/java/bin/java
>> -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
>> -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/conf/logging.properties
>>
>> -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/endorsed
>>
>> -classpath
>> :/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/bootstrap.jar:/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/commons-logging-api.jar
>>
>> -Dcatalina.base=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13
>> -Dcatalina.home=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13
>> -Djava.io.tmpdir=/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/temp
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
>>
>> $cat catalina.out
>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina
>>         at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
>>         at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>         at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
>>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
>>         at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:215)
>>         at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:390)
>>
>>
>> truss output: path was truncated after the # sign:
>>
>> ...
>> 2717/2:         read(5, "CAFEBABE\0\0\0 1\00701\0".., 142)      = 142
>> 2717/2:
>> stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/org/apache/catalina/security/SecurityClassLoad.class",
>>
>> 0xD230ABF0) Err#2 ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         llseek(9, 1422, SEEK_SET)                       = 1422
>> 2717/2:         read(9, " P K0304\n\0\0\0\b\0F91C".., 30)       = 30
>> 2717/2:         llseek(9, 1504, SEEK_SET)                       = 1504
>> 2717/2:         read(9, "95 W k o14 U18 ~ f [DAC3".., 1634)     = 1634
>> 2717/2:         brk(0x08172F08)                                 = 0
>> 2717/2:         brk(0x08176F08)                                 = 0
>> 2717/9:         pollsys(0x00000000, 0, 0xCFCA9CD8, 0x00000000)  = 0
>> 2717/2:
>> stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat#1/apache-tomcat-6.0.13/bin/org/apache/catalina/startup/Catalina.class",
>>
>> 0xD230B3D0) Err#2 ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> 2717/3:         lwp_cond_wait(0x0806F7A0, 0x0806F788, 0xD208DB48, 0)
>> (sleeping...)
>> 2717/3:         lwp_cond_wait(0x0806F7A0, 0x0806F788, 0xD208DB48, 0)
>> Err#62 ETIME
>> 2717/9:         pollsys(0x00000000, 0, 0xCFCA9CD8, 0x00000000)  = 0
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> 2717/2:         stat64("/export/home/markus/tomcat", 0xD230AA60) Err#2
>> ENOENT
>> ...
>>
>> Although there is a rather old but maybe similar bug at:
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4231042
>> i supose somewhere the road this has been fixed, as i have no problems
>> with JAVA 5/6 and other java programs otherwise my tests where flawed.
>>
>> Installing the jdk in such a directory (e.g. /opt/java#6) works with
>> tomcat, too.
>>
>> Can anybody confirm that "#" is still a special character (for tomcat)?
>> Unfortunately i'm somewhat forced to place tomcat installations/
>> instances into such (with #) directories.
>>
>> Any fix possible?
>>
>> thanks in advance!
>>
>> kind regards,
>>    Markus
>>
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