Upon a fresh install of www-servers/tomcat-6.0.10-r3, the /etc/tomcat-6/ folder has "rwxr-x--- root root" permissions. In this state, starting tomcat with /etc/init.d/tomcat-6 quickly finishes with "[ok]", but no daemon is running and no logfile contain any valuable info. I fixed my installation by running "chgrp -R tomcat /etc/tomcat-6".
Looks like regression of bug 175189 which this revbump should have fixed, apparently not as this is a fresh install. wltjr: BTW even migrations from broken versions could be handled if you perform the chmod on live system in pkg_postinst()
Actually I realize my install might not have been that fresh : I first installed tomcat-5.5, then removed it (with all emerged dependencies) before emerging tomcat-6. I hadn't touched the config files in my first install, and they're in a different folder (tomcat-5) AFAIK, so it shouldn't have influenced the tomcat-6 install ? Anyway, I've just unmerged tomcat-6 (manually deleting config-protedted files) and reemerged it, and this time the owner was set to tomcat:tomcat by the ebuild. Not sure where to go from there.
Went ahead and added some code to pkg_postinst() to change the owner of that directory recursively on live system. It's a temp hack and will be removed in a revision or two. Hopefully others will have updated by then so once removed problem does not re-appear. Still due to files that were in /etc now being symlinks. Server webapp context files, that must go into /etc/ for functional reasons, but really reside in /usr/share/tomcat-*/webapps/. Closing bug as it should be fixed now. Please comment or re-open if problem remains.
(In reply to comment #3) > Went ahead and added some code to pkg_postinst() to change the owner of that > directory recursively on live system. It's a temp hack and will be removed in a > revision or two. Please add pkg_postinst message that you are changing the live filesystem.
pkg_postinst message added
