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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
