Ubuntu
tomcat5.5 package

  1. Bug #97096
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 97096

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Michael Moore (stuporglue) wrote : Re: tomcat5.5 won't start b/c of catalina.out named pipe

Here's a workaround:

Edit the tomcat startup script (/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5).

At the very end of the start) block there is an else statement.

Insert the following line immediately before the first else:
tail /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out > /dev/null &

Save and close the file.

Restart Tomcat5.5

Now the file will be tailed by the startup script and Tomcat should work fine. If it doesn't, you can try replacing the "tail" with "cat".