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

[Roland Turner (Debian)]

Stefan Gybas said:

> 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.

Ah; I wondered whether I had seen something like this at some point. This
also explains what happened. IIRC, I had intended to install 4.0.4 but,
because of my apt setup, had brought in 4.1.* instead. I then downgraded
to 4.0.4 which, presumably, left the named pipe in situ but was then
unable to deal with it.
If this is correct, then it's definitely a bug, but probably not one worth
fixing.
- Raz