Well, I just found that tar tvfz <eclipse-archive> shows "tomcat/
users" as the owner of the files.

I think that this UID corresponds to my "Debian-exim" id.

However, I extract the tar files with "tar xvfz".

Magnus

On Jul 18, 7:12 am, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 07/17/2010 08:23 PM, Magnus wrote:
> > > Hi Rajeev!
>
> > >>> I always installed eclipse as root, i. e. extracting the tar archive
> > >>> as root into /usr/local/eclipse and changing the ownership of all
> > >>> files and folders to root.
>
> > >> You shouldn't need to change the ownership. If you're really extracting
> > the
> > >> files as root, then they are already owned by root.
>
> > > No:
> > > drwxr-sr-x  3 root        root  4096 2010-07-18 05:07 .
> > > drwxr-sr-x 12 root        root  4096 2010-07-12 19:10 ..
> > > drwxrwsr-x  9 Debian-exim users 4096 2010-06-17 17:15 eclipse
>
> Do you remember the tar command you use to extract the files? I'm wondering
> if you're preserving the owner  specified in the ** archive.

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