Description of problem: tomcat6 won't start properly on a fresh install of Fedora 15 x86_64. The permissions appear to be incorrect on some of the directories used in tomcat Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tomcat6-6.0.30-6.fc15.noarch How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: [root@f15-snap3 ~]# rpm -q tomcat6 package tomcat6 is not installed [root@f15-snap3 ~]# rpm -q fedora-release fedora-release-15-1.noarch [root@f15-snap3 ~]# yum install tomcat6^C [root@f15-snap3 ~]# yum install tomcat6 fedora/metalink ... [root@f15-snap3 ~]# service tomcat6 start Starting tomcat6: [ OK ] [root@f15-snap3 ~]# ps -ef |grep java root 1367 1026 0 12:07 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto java [root@f15-snap3 ~]# cat /var/log/tomcat6/catalina.out /usr/sbin/tomcat6: line 30: /usr/share/tomcat6/logs/catalina.out: Permission denied [root@f15-snap3 ~]# Expected results: Start the server normally Additional info: I manually went around fixing permissions: chmod g+x /var/log/tomcat6 chmod g+x /etc/tomcat6/ chown tomcat:tomcat -R /var/lib/tomcat6 chown tomcat:tomcat -R /var/lib/tomcat6 chown tomcat:tomcat -R /var/cache/tomcat6 and it starts normally after that and will load webapps.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708694 ***