[TriLUG] Odd Tomcat (or shell-scripting?) problem - regular user process creates root-owned files

[Brian McCullough]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:49:49PM +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> I'm encountering a strange problem related to file permissions with 
> Tomcat, the Java application server.  Tomcat includes a procedure to 
> auto-rotate its logfiles, but when it does so, new log files are created 
> with root ownership, even though the java process runs as a normal user. 


Jeremy,

Just a bit off the wall, but are you sure that the regular system
logrotate and syslogd aren't sticking their noses in where they are not
wanted?


Brian