Bug 593346

Summary:	www-servers/tomcat - init script should create CATALINA_TMPDIR on startup
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jan Henke <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jan Henke 2016-09-10 07:24:30 UTC

Tomcat 8 uses /var/tmp/<name of tomcat instance> as the default location of CATALINA_TMPDIR. It fails to start if that folder does not exists already.

Since my /tmp and /var/tmp are both tmpfs, it is cleared on reboot. This means the CATALINA_TMPDIR is removed on reboot (as it should). This prevents Tomcat from starting automatically.

But since /var/tmp is world writeable, the startup script could create the CATALINA_TMPDIR itself. Can you modify the default start script, so that it tries to create the CATALINA_TMPDIR before failing?