Description of problem:
tomcat does not start: /var/log/tomcat5/cacalina.out holds:
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/tomcat5
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat5/temp
Using JRE_HOME:       
touch: kann „/usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out“ nicht berühren: Keine 
Berechtigung
/usr/bin/dtomcat5: line 325: /usr/share/tomcat5/logs/catalina.out: Keine 
Berechtigung


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tomcat5-5.5.25-1jpp.1.fc7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install tomcat5
2. rm -rf /var/log/tomcat5/*
3. /etc/init.d/tomcat5 start
  
Actual results:
Tomcat doesn't start because root creates the file "/var/log/tomcat5/
catalina.out" and after tomcat switching to user tomcat, group tomcat it 
looses access to "catalina.out".

Expected results:
The init script has to
- check if /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out exists
  if not: create it
- check if owner is the one tomcat will run as
  if not: change owner
- check if group is the one tomcat will run as
  if not: change group

The init script does not do any of these checks.


Additional info:
--- tomcat5.old 2007-12-27 12:44:16.000000000 +0100
+++ tomcat5     2007-12-27 12:41:29.000000000 +0100
@@ -64,9 +64,16 @@
 # Define the tomcat username
 TOMCAT_USER="${TOMCAT_USER:-tomcat}"
 
+# Define the tomcat group
+TOMCAT_GROUP="${TOMCAT_GROUP:-tomcat}"
+
 # Define the tomcat log file
 TOMCAT_LOG="${TOMCAT_LOG:-/var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out}"
 
+test -e $TOMCAT_LOG || touch $TOMCAT_LOG
+chown $TOMCAT_USER:$TOMCAT_GROUP $TOMCAT_LOG
+
+
 RETVAL="0"
 
 # remove when the RHEL and FC daemon functions converge


The same problem is with
- Fedora 7
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 8.90
- CentOS 4+
- CentOS 5, 5.1
- RHEL 5, 5.1