Bug 175393

Summary:	Tomcat 5.5 init script working directory is /
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) <wltjr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	java
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Barkalow 2007-04-20 22:43:21 UTC

When I start tomcat5.5 with the init script, the server's cwd is /. Some applications expect it to be a directory which can have useful files put in it (e.g., a DTD subdirectory with useful DTDs).

Gentoo bug #86905 seems to have set it to ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps, for 5.0 (instead of the cwd of the user running the init script), but this property seems to have been lost in 5.5.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start tomcat
2. ls -l /proc/`cat /var/run/tomcat.pid`/cwd


Actual Results:  
/proc/21148/cwd -> /


Expected Results:  
/proc/21148/cwd -> /var/lib/tomcat-5.5/

(or /usr/share/tomcat-5.5, or something similar)

Comment 1 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-15 04:38:58 UTC

As per recommendations from those in community working dir is not set to Tomcat's temp dir, which is CATALINA_TMPDIR="${CATALINA_BASE}"/temp.

Closing bug as it should be fixed now. Please comment or re-open if problem remains.