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I think it is a good question. I found it also confusing. I installed tomcat few minutes ago (after a while) and I notice they are two different "webapps" places. at /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/default_root/ at /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/ The content of both are the same but none of them are symlinks. When I started tomcat it says: Quote: This is the default Tomcat home page. It can be found on the local filesystem at: /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/index.html Tomcat6 veterans might be pleased to learn that this system instance of Tomcat is installed with CATALINA_HOME in /usr/share/tomcat6 and CATALINA_BASE in /var/lib/tomcat6 So, based in this information, the /usr/share/... folder was kept for backward compatibility, right? But according to what you posted libs are being read from the CATALINA_HOME instead of CATALINA_BASE. Perhaps they still keep that default reference to prevent other systems to stop working after updating? Good observation! UPDATE: I read this at: /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh : Quote: # CATALINA_HOME May point at your Catalina "build" directory. # # CATALINA_BASE (Optional) Base directory for resolving dynamic portions # of a Catalina installation. If not present, resolves to # the same directory that CATALINA_HOME points to. When we read at: /etc/init.d/tomcat6 : (at the beginning) CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/$NAME (then...) # Directory for per-instance configuration files and webapps CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/$NAME However, If you try to start TOMCAT manually (as I did long time ago) with: sudo /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh It displays: Quote: Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat6 Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat6 Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /u

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