Bug#374928: tomcat5: unable to deploy after installation

[winston at seattlesoft.com]

Package: tomcat5
Version: 5.0.30-9
Severity: important


After installing tomcat, I found a lot of errors in the logs and I was
unable to deploy webapps.  I found that everything under the following
directory was owned by the group 'nogroup':

/var/lib/tomcat5/work/Catalina/localhost

I changed the group ownership recursively under this directory and
everything worked fine.

-Winston

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tomcat5 depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.63       Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-common                2.0.54-5   next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-utils [apache-utils]  2.0.54-5   utility programs for webservers
ii  libtomcat5-java               5.0.30-9   Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2-runtime] 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

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