Bug#456608: tomcat5.5: Tomcat Temp Directory Cleaning Fails When Temp Directory contains Sub-Directory

[Matt Petteys]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.25-2
Severity: important

When I attempt to start tomcat, I receive the following error

sh-3.1# /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start
Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5rm: cannot remove
`/var/lib/tomcat5.5/temp/JSPWiki-11143287': Is a directory

In /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5, on or about line 148 ..  The startup script trys to clean the temp directory with the below command but the jspwiki package is creating a directory in the temp folder which the rm command is not handling..

find "$CATALINA_BASE"/temp/ -mindepth 1 -exec rm -f {} +

If this line is changed to the following, to perform a recursive rm, it successfully cleans the directory

find "$CATALINA_BASE"/temp/ -mindepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} +

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser              3.104               add and remove users and groups
ii  jsvc                 1.0.2~svn20061127-6 wrapper to launch Java application
ii  libecj-java          3.3.0+0728-2        Eclipse Java compiler (library)
ii  libtomcat5.5-java    5.5.25-2            Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2 1.5.0-12-2          Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

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