Tomcat 5.5 startup script fail if temp directory contains subdirectories

I did a little patch (attached as diff file to be applied to /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5).
Basically, it seems the command that has to clean up the temp directory didn't take into consideration the presence of subdirectories. I added the -r option to the rm command :-)

Could it be possible to have this patch applied to the official repository package? Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Fabio

This is fixed in Debian unstable.

This bug was fixed in the package tomcat5.5 - 5.5.25-5ubuntu1

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tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-5ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #153672, LP: #159661, LP: #161882,
    LP: #173692, LP: #179491), remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Change the Maintainer address.
    - debian/rules: Force flag passed to rm to `prune files that should not be
      installed at all'.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: Check if tomcat-users.xml exists.
    Thanks to Javier Serrano Polo for the patch. Closes: #445857.
  * debian/tomcat5.5-webapps.postrm: Purge links created in postinst script.
    Closes: #453879.
  * debian/tomcat5.5-admin.links: Fix symlink for commons-io.jar.
    Closes: #452366.
  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: Check user id of the user running the init script.
    Closes: #457956.
  * Renamed /etc/cron.daily/tomcat5.5 to /etc/cron.daily/tomcat55.
    Closes: #454296.
  * debian/tomcat5.5.init: source /etc/default/locale and export LANG so
    tomcat gets started with system locale. Originally reported to
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat5.5/+bug/153672.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-4) unstable; urgency=high

  * CVE-2007-5342: Fix unauthorized modification of data because of
    too open permissions. Closes: #458237.
  * Always clean temporary directory on startup. Closes: #456608.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/libtomcat5.5-java.links: Removed links for xml-apis.jar and
    xercesImpl.jar. Closes: #443382, #455495.
  * Added libgnumail-java to Build-Depends. Closes: #454312.
  * Updated Standards-Version to 3.7.3.

tomcat5.5 (5.5.25-2) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Michael Koch ]
  CVE-2007-5461:
  * Fix absolute path traversal vulnerability. Closes: #448664.

  [ Marcus Better ]
  * Add required commons-io symlink to the admin webapp, which fixes WAR
    file uploads. (Closes: #452366)
  * debian/control: Use the new Homepage and Vcs-* fields.
  * debian/NEWS: Remove outdated entry.

 -- Matti Lindell <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:30:59 +0200