No, I understand fine. What I'm saying is, the usual "It's the Debian way and therefore better" reason is NOT compelling because it breaks Tomcat. I say this because it doesn't work. I invite you to confirm it by doing a fresh install of the tomcat-user package for instance-- on a fresh slate. navigate to CATALINA_HOME/bin, set up a jdk and run ./startup.bin. Observe the output. Now try to deploy any serious Java app with say, Netbeans. Take note of the result, a litany of errors mostly created by permissions issues. Then try to deploy the same app with a Tomcat tarball from Apache. Notice it works.
In layman's terms we call this "broken". It may be "standards compliant", but is a standards-compliant distribution that doesn't work. Googling this will reveal this distribution of Tomcat to be practically world-famous for being broken. If it is simply a matter of misunderstanding how this Tomcat distribution works, maybe someone can let the folks at Apache know HOW it works...in real life, because when I was in the midst of developing on it and ran into issues, their helpful solution was to uninstall it and download theirs. That worked. -- tomcat6 directory structure broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577683 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to tomcat6 in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
