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From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr>
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Subject: Tomcat's daemonctl script
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Hi all,

I' ve been bitten by the fact that tomcat from ports installs a binary script 
to control its status. The unfortunate fact is that when you upgrade the jdk, 
the port has to be upgraded too, since it contains a hardcoded reference to 
the java program's path. This could be tolerated in a personal system, but on 
a farm-like environment with more than a dozen hosts, it becomes a 
maintenance nightmare. I have resorted temporarily to creating symlinks from 
jdk1.4.2 to jdk1.4.1, but overall I agree with Sheldon Hearn's opinion in:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20031215123601.GU13737
Could we please provide an regular rc.d script as we do for every other 
service?

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece