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tomcat6 package

  1. Bug #557300
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Max (mjs510) wrote : tomcat6 package changes ownership of directories

Binary package hint: tomcat6

I run tomcat6 on Ubuntu 8.10, installed from the tomcat6 package. I need to run tomcat as a different user to 'tomcat6' so have configured this via the TOMCAT6_USER variable in /etc/default/tomcat6. I then manually changed the ownership of tomcat's various directories for this to work. This has been fine for over a year and has survived updates to the tomcat6 package. However, this morning I upgraded to 6.0.18-0ubuntu3.3 and afterwards found that tomcat no longer ran. After investigation, I found that the upgrade had chowned and chgrped tomcat's directories to the tomcat6 user/group. This left tomcat unable to run as it couldn't read or write key directories.

Looking at the tomcat6 package, this happens in the postinst script, during the configure stage. The same also happens in the current tomcat6 package in Ubuntu 10.04. I would suggest that these chowns/chgrps either be removed, or that they are made aware of the user that tomcat runs as. Could this be done by passing options through debconf?