Thomas, yes that is correct, a 'copy' of the geonode-data directory will alter the users and permissions. However if you copy the directory using tar, for example: tar cf - dirA | tar xvf - -C dirB then you'll preserver all the users and file directory permissions. Cheers, Ben
-- Ben Wyss OpenQuake Community Manager GEM Foundation c/o Eucentre, Via Ferrata 1 27100 Pavia, Italy www.openquake.org On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:42 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Did you check the group and owner of the folder > "/var/lib/geoserver/geonode-data" ? > > We found that if you create/copy the folder from another installation > usually the owner and the group is not set correctly to "tomcat6" and > geoserver is not able to read that folder so set the default data > directory to "/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/geoserver/data". > > Ciao, Thomas > >
