tomcat not setting correct locales for jvm when started at boot time

[oxi]

Binary package hint: tomcat5.5

tomcat5.5.20-4ubuntu1 Feisty Fawn Ubuntu Server

If started manually it will get correct locale, but it won't when starting at boot time. This is probably caused because locale variables not present before tomcat startup at boot time? Maybe could be fixed by adding "source /etc/default/locale" in startup script? I'm going to try this and report back.

[oxi (oxiroxt)]

Ouch.

etc/rc2.d/S90tomcat5.5: 29: source: not found

How would one read the variables of /etc/default/locale into the script without having to parse the file? :?

Help please!

Thanks

[oxi (oxiroxt)]

oh I see... this is caused by sh not having the source command, which is hashed...
Changing the first line of the init script: #!/bin/sh for #!/bin/bash solves the problem. However I don't know whether doing this is correct or even polite...
I'm going to try this again and see if it works.
Be back right now.

[oxi (oxiroxt)]

Ow, didn't work...

well, i'm all left on your hands

Thanks in advance

[oxi (oxiroxt)]

Wow, so many days have passed and nobody helps... what's wrong? In Gentoo bugzilla I used to get an answer by the day...

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Hi, do you still have this problem?

You could try adding:
if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then
        . /etc/default/locale
        export LANG
fi

in the tomcat5.5 initscript (/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5) somewhere in the beginning where other variables are initialized.

[oxi (oxiroxt)]

Yes! That does the trick!!!
Thank you very much! :)))

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Fixed in Debian unstable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat5.5 - 5.5.25-5ubuntu1

---------------
tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-5ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #153672, LP: #159661, LP: #161882,
    LP: #173692, LP: #179491), remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Change the Maintainer address.
    - debian/rules: Force flag passed to rm to `prune files that should not be
      installed at all'.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: Check if tomcat-users.xml exists.
    Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo for the patch. Closes: #445857.
  * debian/tomcat5.5-webapps.postrm: Purge links created in postinst script.
    Closes: #453879.
  * debian/tomcat5.5-admin.links: Fix symlink for commons-io.jar.
    Closes: #452366.
  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: Check user id of the user running the init script.
    Closes: #457956.
  * Renamed /etc/cron.daily/tomcat5.5 to /etc/cron.daily/tomcat55.
    Closes: #454296.
  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: source /etc/default/locale and export LANG so
    tomcat gets started with system locale. Originally reported to
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat5.5/+bug/153672.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-4) unstable; urgency=high

  * CVE-2007-5342: Fix unauthorized modification of data because of
    too open permissions. Closes: #458237.
  * Always clean temporary directory on startup. Closes: #456608.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/libtomcat5.5-java.links: Removed links for xml-apis.jar and
    xercesImpl.jar. Closes: #443382, #455495.
  * Added libgnumail-java to Build-Depends. Closes: #454312.
  * Updated Standards-Version to 3.7.3.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-2) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Michael Koch ]
  CVE-2007-5461:
  * Fix absolute path traversal vulnerability. Closes: #448664.

  [ Marcus Better ]
  * Add required commons-io symlink to the admin webapp, which fixes WAR
    file uploads. (Closes: #452366)
  * debian/control: Use the new Homepage and Vcs-* fields.
  * debian/NEWS: Remove outdated entry.

 -- Matti Lindell <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:30:59 +0200