Unable to start Tomcat in OpenShift v2 or with non-tomcat users

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Issue

  • Since updating to tomcat8-8.0.36-17.ep7.el6.noarch "others" are not able to run Tomcat 8. It was working with tomcat8-8.0.18-61_patch_01.ep7.el6.noarch.
  • Since updating to tomcat7-7.0.70-16.ep7.el6.noarch "others" are not able to run Tomcat 7. It was working with tomcat7-7.0.54-21_patch_05.ep6.el6.noarch.
  • /usr/share/tomcat8/bin/bootstrap.jar not readable and tomcat raised Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
  • /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar not readable and tomcat raised Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.1 (JWS 3.1.0 GA)
  • Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8

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