<div>On 5/2/07, Andreas Schildbach <<a href="mailto:andreas@schildbach.de">andreas@schildbach.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello everyone, I've got a strange problem with the tomcat5.5 package. After installing tomcat5.5 and sun-java5-jdk on Feisty, I can run sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start However, Tomcat actually does not really start and does not open a port, although it can be seen in the process list. I need to do sudo less /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out The second I do that, Tomcat starts up. Note that catalina.out it not a "regular file"; it has got the "p" flag. What does it mean? Is this strange behaviour expected? Is it a bug? Regards, Andreas </blockquote></div> Hi Andreas, 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: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop sudo rm /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out sudo touch /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out </div> The tomcat server hanging until you try to look at the contents of catalina.out is a feature of a named pipe, though. Look at <a href="http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/2156">this</a> discussion of named pipes from the Linux Journal ( <a href="http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/2156">http://www2.linuxjournal.com/article/2156</a>). I've never installed Tomcat using the package as it's really easy to do using the regular binary distribution. I understand the benefits of using the package, but if you continue to have problems, try just downloading the binary distribution and using that. -- Vince