Bug 59031

Summary:	Tomcat 8 uninstaller entres a symbolic link and deletes its contents
Product:	Tomcat 8	Reporter:	Birger Skogeng Pedersen <birger.sp>
Component:	Util	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	8.0.x-trunk
Target Milestone:	----
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All

Description Birger Skogeng Pedersen 2016-02-19 07:45:44 UTC

My Tomcat 8 installation folder contained a symbolic link to a folder (A) for some project of mine. When uninstalling tomcat, the contents of my project folder (A) was removed.

Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2016-02-19 08:40:01 UTC

Which operating system was this on?

Comment 2 Birger Skogeng Pedersen 2016-02-19 08:40:53 UTC

Windows 10

Comment 3 Birger Skogeng Pedersen 2016-02-19 08:42:53 UTC

(In reply to Mark Thomas from comment #1)
> Which operating system was this on?

Windows 10

Comment 4 Mark Thomas 2016-02-25 20:40:55 UTC

Thanks for the additional information.

NSIS (the tool we use to build the Tomcat installer) follows symbolic links so the recursive delete which is part of the uninstall was responsible for removing the contents of the symlinked directory.

I have modified the uninstaller so it first removes all symlinks from the Tomcat installation directory and any sub-directories before it does the recursive deletes.

The fix has been applied to 9.0.x for 9.0.0.M4 onwards, 8.0.x for 8.0.33 onwards, 7.0.x for 7.0.69 onwards and 6.0.x for 6.0.46 onwards.