tomcat broken for FreeBSD 4?

[Benjamin Thelen]

Benjamin Thelen schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30_3 does not start anymore under FreeBSD 
> 4.11-RELEASE-p13:
> 
> /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat5.0/logs/stderr.log sais:
> daemon: illegal option -- p
> usage: daemon [-cf] command arguments ...
> 
> 
> Indeed "man daemon" shows that there is no -p option in contrary to 
> FreeBSD 6.1.
> 
> 
> But the tomcat start script makes use of this option 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat50.sh on line 119:
> 
> command="/usr/sbin/daemon"
> flags="-p ${pidfile} ${java_command} start ${tomcat50_flags} ${log_args}"
> 
> 
> 
> Is tomcat broken for FreeBSD 4?
> 
> I couldn't find any hint neither on the web nor in /usr/port/UPDATING 
> and even not in the ports changes!
> 
> 
> I'd really appreciate any hint!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
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Addition:


Meanwhile I found a mail, however and did as suggested remove the "-p 
${pidfile}" to get things running, but indeed a proper fix would be great!

This was really a bad suprise this morning! Again, another incident that 
sais, "shut your old FreeBSD 4 box down" ;-) !


Ben