Bug#402603: tomcat5.5: blocks on startup until log pipe is read

[Marcus Better]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.20-4
Severity: serious

tomcat5.5 (sometimes) blocks on startup since its standard output is
redirected to the named pipe /var/log/tomcat5.5/catalina.out, and this
blocks until the pipe is opened for reading. Thus tomcat5.5 will not
startup until the after pipe is read, even though the startup script
terminates successfully.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser              3.100               Add and remove users and groups
ii  ecj-bootstrap        3.2.1-3             bootstrap version of the Eclipse J
ii  gij [java2-runtime]  4:4.1.1-13          The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runti 4.1.1-20            The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat-dev  1.0.65-8            Java runtime environment with GCJ
ii  jsvc                 1.0.2~svn20061127-4 wrapper to launch Java application
ii  libtomcat5.5-java    5.5.20-4            Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2 1.5.0-08-1.1        Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

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