[Bug 915089] Re: Tomcat 6 start up fails with unknown dir /var/lib/tomcat6/work

[Mike Amos]

Changing the broken links to a symbolic link using an absolute path
allowed starting the tomcat6 service.

root at SBSDT16:/var/lib/tomcat6# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root      12 2012-01-11 17:05 conf -> /etc/tomcat6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root      16 2012-01-11 18:43 logs -> /var/log/tomcat6
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 server
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 shared
drwxrwxr-x 4 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 webapps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root      18 2012-01-11 18:43 work -> /var/cache/tomcat6
root at SBSDT16:/var/lib/tomcat6# service tomcat6 start
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6                                                                        [ OK ] 
root at SBSDT16:/var/lib/tomcat6# ps -elf | grep tomcat
0 S tomcat6   5460     1 70  80   0 - 157654 futex_ 18:45 ?       00:00:25 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -classpath /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-tmp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
0 S root      5524  4481  0  80   0 -  2285 pipe_w 18:46 pts/0    00:00:00 grep tomcat

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