Re: owned by root

2009-06-29 Thread André Warnier
Hassan Schroeder wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Melanie Pfefer wrote: Any idea what makes web applications owned by root even though tomcat runs as a non-root user? Uh, they were installed by root? :-) Uh, Uh. What do you mean by "web applications owned by root" anyway ? do you

Re: owned by root

2009-06-29 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Melanie Pfefer wrote: > Any idea what makes web applications owned by root even though tomcat runs as > a non-root user? Uh, they were installed by root? :-) -- Hassan Schroeder hassan.schroe...@gmail.com -

Re: owned by root

2009-06-29 Thread David Smith
Melanie Pfefer wrote: > Hi > > Any idea what makes web applications owned by root even though tomcat runs as > a non-root user? (I have mod_jk installed and apache running as root) > > Thank you, > > > I have two thoughts: 1. You installed the webapp as root which caused the OS to write the f