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installing/creating /etc/tomcat7 [resolved]

 
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I am running on crunchbang Linux, a derivative of Debian Linux, and I use apt-get to install most packages.

However, I am in the process of upgrading from tomcat6 to tomcat7 and I have a problem because tomcat7
is not available for download with the crunchbang distribution. When tomcat6-admin was installed with apt-get,
the /etc/tomcat6 directory got populated for me. I downloaded tomcat7 as a compressed tar file from
apache and installed it. Tomcat7 seems to be running ok, at least the daemon is running. But there is
no /etc/tomcat7 directory to control the local configuration. It looks like it should be created when the
tomcat7-admin package is installed. But I cannot find any documentation about installing tomcat7-admin.

I have scanned through the tomcat7 doc website and have not been able to find the installation instructions
I'm looking for. Can someone either point me to the instructions I would need to install tomcat7-admin?

Regards,
Jim Anderson
 
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I got this issue resolved on the tomcat mail list. The /etc/tomcat6 directory is part of the crunchbang linux distribution of tomcat6 and not part of the standard tomcat7 distribution.

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Tomcat itself, like the JDKs is distributed as an integral directory subtree. However, the LSB standard recommends a more distributed location for files (/etc, /bin, /var/log, /tmp, and so forth). So some OS packages (debs and RPMS) for Tomcat attempt to make it LSB-conformant.

This is usually done by making the installer setup softlinks so that the tomcat-local directories appear to be in their rightful places under /etc, /var/log, and so forth. That's especially convenient since it's common to unzip Tomcat under /usr/local, but the current system standards say that anything under /usr should be read-only, which is a bit of a problem for things like log and work files!
 
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