Hi guys, I am having a problem with Tomcat on SuSE 10.0 namely it will not start: WARNING: Unexpected exception resolving reference java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat5/conf/tomcat-users.xml.new (Permission denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131) at org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabase.save(MemoryUserDatabase.java:462) at org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory.getObjectInstance(MemoryUserDatabaseFactory.java:98) at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceFactory.java:129) at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:301) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:791) at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:151) at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.createMBeans(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:125) at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener.java:97) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2306) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:556) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:287) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:425) May 18, 2006 10:58:43 AM org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener createMBeans I have not made any changes to that file and the permissions on the file which the error is complaining about are set to: ls -l /srv/www/tomcat5/base/conf/ total 96 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-08 19:33 Catalina -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 6954 2005-09-12 22:20 catalina.policy -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 2754 2005-09-12 22:20 catalina.properties -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 778 2005-09-12 22:20 jk2.properties -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 1128 2005-09-12 22:20 server-minimal.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 21367 2006-03-03 09:03 server.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 2254 2006-02-13 15:20 server.xml.new -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 432 2006-05-10 08:48 tomcat-users.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 38929 2005-09-12 22:20 web.xml the conf is a symlink with the following permissions: ls -l /srv/www/tomcat5/base/conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-11-08 10:12 /srv/www/tomcat5/base/conf -> /etc/tomcat5/base my base looks like this: ls -l /srv/www/tomcat5/base/ total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-11-08 10:12 conf -> /etc/tomcat5/base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2005-11-08 10:12 logs -> /var/log/tomcat5/base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2005-11-08 10:12 temp -> /var/cache/tomcat5/base/temp drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-05-18 10:58 webapps lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2005-11-08 10:12 work -> /var/cache/tomcat5/base/work I have 2 servers that have the same problem, is anyone else experiencing this??? It used to work maybe a few days ago and I have made some updates since then now it does not. Thanks. George