And nothing in the .bash_history(s)?

To eliminate all possibilities, were there any system maintenance processes
or activities underway when this occurred?

Does your app have any functions at all that apply to the filing system?


p

On 11 April 2010 21:27, Karin Moscovici <karin.moscov...@correlix.com>wrote:

> It happened three times on three different customer sites. It does not
> reproduce, but due to the different places where it has occurred I assume
> this is not a human error.
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Pid * <p...@pidster.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9 April 2010 22:16, Karin Moscovici <karin.moscov...@correlix.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Chris. Indeed, my issue is different than the one you've
> described
> > -
> > > The links are deleted from common/lib and server/lib, and their targets
> > are
> > > unharmed.  I don't know of any other reason that could have possible
> > cause
> > > the deletion. Thanks for the answer.
> > >
> >
> > Is it happening regularly, or did it happen just once?
> >
> > Can you examine the .bash_history of any users with access to this system
> > to
> > see if it was an inadvertent human error?
> >
> >
> > p
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Christopher Schultz <
> > > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> > >
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> > > > Karin,
> > > >
> > > > On 4/9/2010 4:55 PM, Karin Moscovici wrote:
> > > > > I'm using tomcat 5.5 on Linux Centos. Today, after restarting
> tomcat,
> > > my
> > > > > application did not load. In the logs I found NoClassDefError on
> > > > > org.servlet.jsp.JspFactory class. It seems that the symbolic link
> to
> > > > > /usr/shar/java/jsp.jar that was under tomcat/common/lib simply
> > > > dissappeared.
> > > > > When I added it using ln -s the problem was solved. This has
> happened
> > > to
> > > > me
> > > > > once before with HttpServletRequest class and servlet-api.jar from
> > > > > tomcat/server/lib. Is this a known issue?
> > > >
> > > > The only issue I believe Tomcat has with symbolic links is when you
> > have
> > > > a symbolic link pointing from inside your webapp's deployment
> directory
> > > > (say, webapps/mywebapp) and then you perform an "undeploy" operation:
> > > > that will perform a recursive delete that ravages the target of the
> > > > symlink.
> > > >
> > > > That has been fixed in recent versions: check the ChangeLog for
> > details.
> > > >
> > > > It sounds like your issue is something different, though.
> > > >
> > > > I don't believe Tomcat deletes any files except those related to
> actual
> > > > webapps. Are you sure there's no other way these links could have
> been
> > > > deleted?
> > > >
> > > > You could make those files (and their parent directories)
> non-writable
> > > > by the euid running Tomcat and see if you get any exceptions: that
> > would
> > > > produce a stack trace proving that Tomcat is trying to delete the
> file
> > > > (when it probably shouldn't be).
> > > >
> > > > - -chris
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