Bug#259155: tomcat4: catalina.out has turned into a named pipe!

[Stefan Gybas]

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tags 259155 unreproducible
thanks

Roland Turner wrote:

> /var/log/tomcat4/catalina.out on my system is a named pipe. I am
> certain that I did not cause this to happen. This
> of course breaks things very badly, "invoke-rc.d tomcat4 start"
> blocks forever and therefore "apt-get upgrade" is unable to
> complete.

The named pipe is created by /etc/init.d/tomcat4 in never versions so 
that the log files can be rotated. A process that reads this named pipe 
is started by the same init script before tomcat4 itself is started so 
there should always ba a reader and tomcat4 should not block.

> (It is because this bug breaks "unrelated packages" (apt no
> less!) that I've marked this as grave. If this is inappropriate,
> then by all means mark it down.)

It's definietly grave if this happens but I could not reproduce this. I 
have just tried an upgarde from tomcat4 in testing to tomcat4 in 
unstable and it worked as expected.

Is either /usr/sbin/rotatelogs or /usr/sbin/rotatelogs2 executable on 
your system? Does a manual ("/etc/init.d/tomcat4 start") startup work?

Stefan

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