Startup problems with tomcat5.5

[Andreas Schildbach]

Ghodmode wrote:

>    Something weird is happening.  catalina.out is supposed to be a normal
> file, not a named pipe (that's what the 'p' means).  Try deleting the
> catalina.out pipe and replacing it with a regular file:
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop
> sudo rm /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out
> sudo touch /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out

Thanks for the workaround (it works). I just found out that this bug is
known as

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat5.5/+bug/97096

Regards,

Andreas