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

[Marcus Better]

>  But you need to bootstrap it somehow, and during the bootstrap, there's
>  usually a "simple" logger which logs to stdout.

I retract my previous proposal, and propose instead to send the initial 
messages to the syslog. That would be logical for a daemon.

>  I found this blog post 
>  on the subject interesting:
>     <http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2005/03/java-daemon/>

Tomcat has something similar with the commons-daemon mechanism, which we are 
using now.
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