Dear Emmanuel, > Do you think running something like "chmod -R 640 /etc/tomcat8" right > before the chown is an appropriate solution to this issue?
Might protect against "static" things, but vulnerable to a race. Your postrm script might want to kill all tomcat8 processes, also. That might be a "good thing": deluser or delgroup might not "work" with left-over, running processes; and might protect against a race. But really... why do you care about leaving some "dangling" useless object, owned by some long-gone UID or GID? Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
