Thanks all.   I'm finding out the hard way I'm to dependent on apt-get.
Chris 

----- Original Message ----
From: Hassan Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 11:26:15 AM
Subject: Re: Basic Toimcat5.5 admin question

On 9/21/07, Chris Baty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   The book says to create a  new directory under  ROOT but  I
> don't have permission in my default account.  The  last  install
> I  did a  chgrp /user/share/tomcat5.5-webapps/ROOT www-data
> ... but I screwed  the package up so  bad that I re-installed the
> system.

The mind reels -- how could using `chgrp` "screw up the package"??
It's a basic sysadmin command...

> Could anyone tell me how the is typically  done?

Dunno about "typically" but I `chown` all my webapps folders to my
own userid; `chgrp` should work, if you prefer that. Or `su` to the id
of the folder owner.

FWIW,
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