[gentoo-java] tomcat permissions

[Jesse V Griffis <jgriffis@hdm.com>]

Hi,

Okay, I'm totally new to interacting with Gentoo mailing lists but have been 
using it for a while, so if I step in some poo, don't flame too harshly. :)

I'm actually interested in helping out the java crowd, having read the pleas 
in GWN.  I'd basically fit into the "generalist" camp, and I'm probably 
begging for pain since I'm messing around with the whole 1.4/1.5 business 
(and screwing it up royally along the way).

However, this morning I have a different curious issue: umask and tomcat.  I 
have 5.5.17-r1 installed, running with sun-jdk-1.5.0.07.  The tomcat-5.5 
init.d script uses start-stop-daemon to get the thing up and running, 
ignoring the traditional startup.sh script that's in tomcat's bin dir.

Curiously, the version running using start-stop-daemon is completely ignoring 
the system umask (002 - I'd like to make deployed webapps automatically 
group-writeable), but running the startup.sh script uses it.

Any ideas?  I don't want to have to hack the startup script to call startup.sh 
if possible.

Thanks,

Jesse
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