Hi Manuel, is your servlet container running as root?
Claudia Manuel Martin Mohedano schrieb: > Hello Kim. > > Thank's for answering! But the thing is I am exporting from de Webui... :S. > What I do after login in the site as admin is accesing a comunnity and using > teh admin tools (right side of the screen) I click the button "Export > Community" and this message appears : > Thank You > > > The task is complete, and notification has been sent to the appropriate > people. > When I enter the CLI I see a new zip file corresponding to the exported > comunnity has been created inside exports folder, which has only root access > (And of course I don't have any privileges in the system to do that). > > Thank's in advance. Regards > > Manuel > Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] Strange Behaviour when exporting items and > collections > Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:02:30 +1200 > From: k...@waikato.ac.nz > To: manumohed...@hotmail.com; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Manuel, > > > > I’m assuming that you’re exporting from the CLI here, but if > that’s not the case please say so.. > > Do you use ‘sudo’ when running dsrun? (I’m guessing so, or you > wouldn’t be able to create the files beneath the exports folder if it’s owned > by root). If so, you’re effectively running the ‘dsrun’ command as root unless > you do something like ‘sudo –u tomcat dsrun org.dspace.app......’ or ‘sudo –u > dspace > dsrun .......’ – the username you pass to sudo should be whatever user dspace > is actually running as. > > > > If you get sudo errors when you try this, you may need to ask > the sysadmin to allow you to sudo ‘dsrun’ as your dspace user as well as (or, > preferably, > instead of!) root. You’ll also want them to change ownership of > [dspace]/export/* > to the dspace user, or you won’t be able to write to it. > > > > There’s no need to be concerned about Dspace itself escalating > privileges to root when it shouldn’t be – the dsrun script will run as > whatever > user it thinks is running it (‘effective user’), so if you make sure you can > sudo to the dspace/tomcat user rather than just to root, you should be able to > avoid any root-owned files/dirs being created. > > > > If you’re using the webui or I’m totally barking up the wrong > tree, apologies -- maybe give a few more details about how you’re exporting > items/collections. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Kim > > -- > > Kim Shepherd > > IRR Technical Specialist > > ITS Systems & Development > > The University of Waikato > > New Zealand > > > > DDI +64 7 838 4025 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Manuel Martin Mohedano [mailto:manumohed...@hotmail.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 7:59 p.m. > > To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Dspace-tech] Strange Behaviour when exporting items and > collections > > > > > > > > Hi all. > > > > I was doing some exporting tests with communities and items yesterday and > there > was a thing that surprised me. Exported files are stored in a folder on server > called exports/downloads/number. The thing is the owner of this folder is the > root of the system but I don't have any root account on the machine. How is > this possible?? Can Dspace run processes as root?? > > > > Thank's and regards. > > > > > > > > Charlas > más divertidas con el nuevo Windows > Live Messenger > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chatea sin límites en Messenger con la tarifa plana de Orange > http://serviciosmoviles.es.msn.com/messenger/orange.aspx > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
