title: Trouble with deploying Sonatype Nexus to Tomcat6 on Gentoo (log4j)
body: <p>I'm running a tomcat-6 server on Gentoo. I'm having trouble deploying Nexus to my tomcat server (nexus-war from the sonatype website, and tomcat6 via emerge). The localhost log displays the following when Nexus is started:</p>
  
  <pre>
  
  May 31, 2010 6:50:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart
  SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.sonatype.nexus.web.LogConfigListener
  java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not create default log4j.properties into /dev/null/sonatype-work/nexus/conf/log4j.properties
          at org.sonatype.nexus.web.LogConfigListener.ensureLogConfigLocation(LogConfigListener.java:130)
          at org.sonatype.nexus.web.LogConfigListener.contextInitialized(LogConfigListener.java:53)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Unknown Source)
          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:597)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Unknown Source)
          at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Unknown Source)
  Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /dev/null/sonatype-work/nexus/conf/log4j.properties (Not a directory)
          at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
          at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:179)
          at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:131)
          at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.copyStreamToFile(FileUtils.java:1058)
          at org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils.copyURLToFile(FileUtils.java:1018)
          at org.sonatype.nexus.web.LogConfigListener.ensureLogConfigLocation(LogConfigListener.java:126)
          ... 25 more</pre>
  
  <p>For some reason it looks for the sonatype-work folder in /dev/null. I have been unable to find a solution to this problem. The log4j.properties is located in /var/lib/tomcat-6/webapps/nexus-webapp-1.6.0/WEB-INF/log4j.properties and contain the following:</p>
  
  <pre>
  log4j.rootLogger=INFO, console
  # CONSOLE
  log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
  log4j.appender.console.layout=org.sonatype.nexus.log4j.ConcisePatternLayout
  log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%4d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p - %c - %m%n
  </pre>
  
  <p>Has anyone had to deal with this before? Any help is greatly appreciated.</p>