Changing the broken links to a symbolic link using an absolute path
allowed starting the tomcat6 service.
root@SBSDT16:/var/lib/tomcat6# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2012-01-11 17:05 conf -> /etc/tomcat6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2012-01-11 18:43 logs -> /var/log/tomcat6
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 server
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 shared
drwxrwxr-x 4 tomcat6 tomcat6 4096 2012-01-11 17:05 webapps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2012-01-11 18:43 work -> /var/cache/tomcat6
root@SBSDT16:/var/lib/tomcat6# service tomcat6 start
* Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat6
[ OK ]
root@SBSDT16:/var/lib/tomcat6# ps -elf | grep tomcat
0 S tomcat6 5460 1 70 80 0 - 157654 futex_ 18:45 ? 00:00:25
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
-Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat6/conf/logging.properties
-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx128m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/share/tomcat6/endorsed -classpath
/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat6
-Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat6 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/tomcat6-tmp
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
0 S root 5524 4481 0 80 0 - 2285 pipe_w 18:46 pts/0 00:00:00 grep
tomcat
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