Bug#505461: tomcat5.5: Init script fails when too many files in $CATALINA_BASE/temp

[Julien De Bona]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.20-2etch3
Severity: normal

When there are too many files in $CATALINA_BASE/temp, the "rm *" command
at line 131 in /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 expands to a too long command and fails.
Using find instead of rm * can solve this.  Suggested patch for
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 is:

131,132c131,132
< 		rm -rf "$CATALINA_BASE"/temp/* \
< 			"$CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina.out"
---
> 		find "$CATALINA_BASE/temp" -mindepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} + 
> 		rm "$CATALINA_BASE/logs/catalina.out"

This problem can make Tomcat not restart (or start if the server has
been rebooted), and has been solved in Lenny, but not yet in Etch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.102           Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-utils            2.2.3-4+etch6   utility programs for webservers
ii  apache2.2-common         2.2.3-4+etch6   Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  ecj-bootstrap            3.2.1-3         bootstrap version of the Eclipse J
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runtime]  4.1.1-20        The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  libtomcat5.5-java        5.5.20-2etch3   Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2-run 1.5.0-14-1etch1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

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