deepthought ~ # emerge tomcat
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 to /
[...]
 *  BUGS:
 *  Please file any bugs at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ or else it
 *  may not get seen.  Thank you.
 *
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r4 merged.
>>> Recording www-servers/tomcat in "world" favorites file...

>>> clean: No packages selected for removal.

>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.


 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

deepthought ~ # /etc/init.d/tomcat-5 start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                                                                                              [ ok ]
 * Starting Tomcat ...
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/lib/tomcat-5/default
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat-5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/tomcat-5/default
Using JAVA_HOME:       /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.sax).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
[...and so on]
^C

deepthought ~ # wget 127.0.0.1:8080
--14:25:52--  http://127.0.0.1:8080/
           => `index.html'
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8080... failed: Connection refused.

deepthought ~ # /etc/init.d/tomcat-5 zap
deepthought ~ # killall java
deepthought ~ # emacs /etc/conf.d/tomcat
[change line
   CATALINA_OPTS=""
 in
   CATALINA_OPTS="-Dlog4j.configuration=file:/etc/log4j.properties"
]

deepthought bin # /etc/init.d/tomcat-5 start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                                                                                              [ ok ]
 * Starting Tomcat ...
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/lib/tomcat-5/default
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat-5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/tomcat-5/default
Using JAVA_HOME:       /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09
touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/tomcat-5/default/logs/catalina.out': Permission denied
/usr/share/tomcat-5/bin/catalina.sh: line 228: /var/lib/tomcat-5/default/logs/catalina.out: Permission denied

[won't terminate and no connecion to 127.0.0.1:8080 possible]
^C

deepthought ~ # /etc/init.d/tomcat-5 zap
deepthought ~ # killall java
deepthought bin # chown -R tomcat:tomcat /var/log/tomcat-5
deepthought bin # /etc/init.d/tomcat-5 start
 * Starting Tomcat ...
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/lib/tomcat-5/default
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat-5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/tomcat-5/default
Using JAVA_HOME:       /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09

[won't terminate and no connecion to 127.0.0.1:8080 possible]
^C

deepthought bin # cd /usr/share/tomcat-5/bin
deepthought bin # ./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /var/lib/tomcat-5/default
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat-5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /var/tmp/tomcat-5/default
Using JAVA_HOME:       /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.09
deepthought bin # wget 127.0.0.1:8080
--14:36:40--  http://127.0.0.1:8080/
           => `index.html.1'
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8080... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

    [ <=>                                                                                                        ] 9,119         --.--K/s

14:36:41 (5.87 MB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [9119]

deepthought bin # diff /root/tomcat/tomcat-5.init.d.olde /etc/init.d/tomcat-5
13,15c13
<       start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid tomcat:tomcat \
<                         --exec ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/catalina.sh \
<                         -- ${TOMCAT_START}
---
>         ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/catalina.sh  ${TOMCAT_START}
22,24c20
<       start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid tomcat:tomcat \
<                         --exec ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/catalina.sh \
<                         -- ${TOMCAT_STOP}
---
>         ${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/catalina.sh  ${TOMCAT_STOP}