[lug] tomcat5.5 as daemon on FC4

[D. Stimits]

The rpm version of tomcat on Fedora Core 4 is older than I'd like, and 
I'm interested in the 5.5 version (specifically 5.5.12). So I downloaded 
the tarball and copied it over to /usr/local/tomcat5/. I set up all my 
environment variables and jdk1.5.0_05 from Sun. I can start it up just 
fine with the bin/startup.sh.

For the life of me I *cannot* get jsvc to work. I've followed the 
instructions to the letter and a million variations. I verified 
everything is there and permissions are correct. What it always comes 
down to is this error line in the log:
svc.exec error: Cannot find daemon loader 
org/apache/commons/daemon/support/DaemonLoader

The startup script is run from the $CATALINA_HOME directory, and has this:
###################################
#!/bin/bash

JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.5.0_05/
CATALINA_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
DAEMON_HOME=/usr/local/tomcat5
TOMCAT_USER=tomcat
CATALINA_BASE=/usr/local/tomcat5

CLASSPATH=\
$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/commons-daemon.jar:\
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/bootstrap.jar

$DAEMON_HOME/bin/jsvc \
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=$DAEMON_HOME/common/endorsed \
-Dcatalina.home=$CATALINA_HOME \
-Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_BASE \
-cp $CLASSPATH \
-outfile ./logs/catalina.out \
-errfile ./logs/catalina.err \
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

###################################

The DaemonLoader is definitely in the bin/commons-daemon.jar. The 
commons-daemon.jar is readable to all (and the startup is as root 
without change to any other user).

Because I use exactly the same environment and exactly the same 
variables and bin/startup.sh works, I know that the non-jsvc portions 
are correct. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to get jsvc to see the 
DaemonLoader in the commons-daemon.jar file which is in the CLASSPATH? 
Or more precisely, why it cannot find this class in a file that has the 
class (I used the jar tool and verified this exact class is there)? I 
talked to someone who it works fine for using very similar settings on 
Mandrake/Mandriva, so maybe this is a Fedora weirdness. I even turned 
off the SElinux stuff, so it isn't that.

Has anyone here succeeded in making the jsvc in a tarball download 
(non-RH rpm) work on Fedora Core 4?

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net