Synopsis

tomcat6 bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated tomcat6 packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages
(JSP) technologies.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, an attempt to build the tomcat6-docs-webapp package failed when

Red Hat Enterprise Linux was running on IBM System z or 64-bit IBM POWER Series
computers. With this update, no architecture is set in the build target and the
package can be built as expected. (BZ#845786)

• When a user, whose name did not correspond to any existing group name, was

specified in the /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6 file, the Tomcat web server failed to
start. This update applies a patch to fix this bug and Tomcat no longer fails in
the described scenario. (BZ#915447)

• Due to a bug in the checkpidfile() function, an attempt to execute the

"service tomcat6 status" command failed and an error message was returned. The
underlying source code has been modified to fix this bug and the command now
works properly. (BZ#950647)

• Due to a bug in the checkpidfile() function, the status script did not return

the correct PID. This bug has been fixed and the status script now returns the
correct PID as expected. (BZ#960255)

• The Tomcat web server included a version of the tomcat-juli.jar file that was

hard coded to use classes from the java.util.logging package instead of the
log4j framework. Consequently, Tomcat could not be configured to use log4j
unless the complete version of the tomcat-juli.jar and tomcat-juli-adapters.jar
files had been downloaded. With this update, the tomcat6 packages now contain
the correct versions of these files to configure log4j. (BZ#977685)

• When multiple tomcat instances were configured as described in the

/etc/sysconfig/tomcat6 configuration file and the instance name was different
from the name of the tomcat directory, the "service status" command failed. With
this update, the underlying source code has been modified to fix this bug and
the command no longer fails in the described scenario. (BZ#989527)

Users of tomcat6 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 845786 - tomcat6-docs-webapp-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch.rpm has many empty files
• BZ - 915447 - Problem to start tomcat with a user whose group has a name different to the user
• BZ - 950647 - error in the checkpidfile() function of the init script
• BZ - 960255 - Status Script does not return the proper PID.
• BZ - 977685 - Need to include full implementation of tomcat-juli.jar and tomcat-juli-adapters.jar
• BZ - 989527 - service status command fails for some renamed tomcat6 based services

CVEs

(none)

References

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