Good day.
I'm three+ hours into chroot'd jsvc odyssey that leaves me baffled. My eyes
are looking but they seem to have failed to see.
Recall normally when Tomcat starts that it writes information to
catalina.out. However, when I run Tomcat as chroot'd with jsvc I can see a
successful open("catalina.out") (paraphrasing) system call courtesy of
strace, but I not once see any attempt in strace output to write to
catalina.out while Tomcat starts up. I hesitate to say that at this point
Tomcat seems to be running ok, because
not seeing anything written to catalina.out probably hints at a deeper
problem. The output I would normally expect to find in catalina.out is, in
fact, found in catalina.2006-10-18.log type files.
I also note that jsvc exits with status code "1" during startup. I'm not
sure that is a sign of trouble or not. jsvc debug output doesn't indicate
anything unusual, and in fact seems to confirm all the right stuff wrto
outfile/errfile as well as successfully changing to a nonprivileged user,
etc.
As I said, I've spent the last three hours confirming everything I thought I
knew about chroot'd jsvc invocations. The next step is to forget everything
I know, and start over. In the meantime, maybe someone can take pity on me
and suggest some possible root causes of this anomaly.
Thanks.
--
Mark
