Tomcat administration

Tomcat is a servlet container, and as such can be used to deploy web applications using Java on the server side.

Tomcat on Gentoo

Currently (19/03/2007), the init scripts on Gentoo are not able to redirect Tomcat's standard output to a file. This is bug 162379 in Gentoo's bugzilla.

This means everything sending stuff to the standard output (for example a console appender in Log4J) won't work. This also means that stack trace logs (caused by exceptions) are not going to be available, since they are outputted to stdout.