Symbolic links to filesystem outside webapp su-directory

Hi,

I am a complete novice to tomcat and struts !!

With Tomcat (out-of-the-box) installed and running, I can run the JSP and
servlet /examples .

In the /examples sub-directory I created a symbolic link to list files in a
sub-directory that is under 'webapps'.

For Example:
   <my-structs>/webapps/examples/myfiles -> /usr/local/data/<myfiles>/....

I restarted tomcat and noticed that I get an error when I try to access
<myfiles> .

Does anyonw know how I can configure the struts framework to follow
symbolic links to files and directories outside of the structs framework ?


Kind Regards,
Marek