Then they must have gotten there some other way. In UNIX it's (normally) not possible for a non-root user to create files owned by root.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_permissions -Archie On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:53 PM, David Wink <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok I checked and the TeamCity agent is being started as the user engserv. > However some of the files being downloaded are still owned by root. No > other user is retrieving files. Most of the files are owned by engserv but > a few are still owned by root. > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM, David Wink <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ivy is being called from an ant script run by TeamCity. I will check to > > see what user the TC agent is started as. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Andrew McFague <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> To reiterate what Archie said, they're not "coming down" as being owned > >> by root; ownership of the file isn't transferred over Ivy. So if > >> they're being owned by root, it means the Ivy process that is retrieving > >> them is being run as the root user. > >> > >> Can you let us know how ivy is being called? > >> > >> Andrew > >> > >> On 07/15/10 15:49, David Wink wrote: > >> > The problem is that I want them to named as the user I am running as. > >> The > >> > user is engserv. Most of the files being downloaded come down with > >> engserv > >> > as the owner but some of them are coming down as root. Is there a way > >> to > >> > control this? > >> > > >> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Archie Cobbs<[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >> Whatever UNIX process is running ivy when it downloads those files > must > >> be > >> >> running as root. This causes any files it creates to be owned by > root. > >> >> > >> >> -Archie > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, David Wink<[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>> I am trying to get a new build platform up and running. However > when > >> I > >> >>> > >> >> run > >> >> > >> >>> my ivy resolve and retrieve. Some of the files are being downloaded > >> with > >> >>> the owner of root instead of my user. This causes me to get > exception > >> >>> occured while writing properties file permission denied errors. Can > >> >>> > >> >> anyone > >> >> > >> >>> help here? > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >> -- > >> >> Archie L. Cobbs > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > > > > -- Archie L. Cobbs
