: Sadly enough, me nor our sysadmin have any experience with setting up : tomcat, jetty, orion, <insert your servlet here>. : We have plenty of experience with other servers like lighttpd and apache, : but that doesn't particularly help.
if you already use a package management system for your servers (RPM, deb, ports, etc...) you might consider using the pre-packaged versions of Tomcat or Jetty, which should take care of things like init.d scripts and standard log file placement. -Hoss
