Bug#356066: Errors when starting -- /etc/init.d/jetty: line 113: /var/log/jetty/out.log: No such file or directory

[Loïc Minier]

Package: jetty
Version: 5.1.5rc1-6
Severity: normal

        Hi,

 Upon the installation of jetty, an attempt is made to start the server,
 and produces the following output:

Setting up jetty (5.1.5rc1-6) ...
Adding system user `jetty' with uid 111...
Adding new user `jetty' (111) with group `nogroup'.
Not creating home directory `/usr/share/jetty'.
Starting Jetty servlet engine: /etc/init.d/jetty: line 113: /var/log/jetty/out.log: No such file or directory
mesg: /dev/pts/9: Operation not permitted
jetty.

 It seems the server is running afterwards, but the output is quite
 misleading.

 The first error is caused by "< "$LOGDIR/out.log"" which isn't found,
 adding a touch solves this part of the bug (but is ugly):
 113            su -p -s /bin/sh "$JETTY_USER" \
                        -c "touch \"$LOGDIR/out.log\""

 I couldn't find the cause of the second warning, adding a set -x to the
 init script showed:
+ echo -n 'Starting Jetty servlet engine: '
Starting Jetty servlet engine: + su -p -s /bin/sh jetty -c 'touch "/var/log/jetty/out.log"'
+ su -p -s /bin/sh jetty -c '/usr/sbin/rotatelogs "/var/log/jetty/out.log" 86400'
+ su -p -s /bin/sh - jetty '/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-sun/bin/java -Xmx256m                   -Djava.awt.headless=true                -Djava.io.tmpdir="/var/cache/jetty"                     -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib -DSTART=/etc/jetty/start.config -Djetty.home=/usr/share/jetty -jar /usr/share/jetty/lib/start.jar /etc/jetty/jetty.xml >> /var/log/jetty/out.log 2>&1 &                          echo $!'
mesg: /dev/pts/9: Operation not permitted
+ echo jetty.
jetty.
+ exit 0

 I'm using a make-jpkg'ed sun-j2sdk1.4, version 1.4.2+08.

   Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages jetty depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.85       Add and remove users and groups
ii  ant                           1.6.5-5    Java based build tool like make
pn  jikes | j2sdk1.3 | j2sdk1.4 | <none>     (no description available)
ii  libcommons-logging-java       1.0.4-4    commmon wrapper interface for seve
ii  libmx4j-java                  2.1.1-4    An open source implementation of t
ii  libservlet2.4-java            5.0.30-3   Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 Java class
ii  libtomcat5-java               5.0.30-9   Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  libxerces2-java               2.6.2-4    Validating XML parser for Java wit
ii  sun-j2sdk1.4 [j2re1.4]        1.4.2+08   Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, 

jetty recommends no packages.

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Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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