Re: Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Crowther
On 4 March 2010 15:43, Florent Georges wrote: > In the meantime, using strace, I figured out what the problem > was: as simple as a wrong owner of one of the parent directories. > I must admit I am not really proud of this, but well, there is no > diagnostic at all with mkdir() :-( > > Glad you f

Re: Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Florent Georges
Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > At least, you can replace your catalina.policy with > grant { > permission java.security.AllPermission; > }; Good to know, thanks for the hint! In the meantime, using strace, I figured out what the problem was: as simple as a wrong owner of one of the parent dir

Re: Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2010/3/4 Florent Georges : >  Is there a simple way to disable the security manager in order to be sure > this is such an issue? There is a setting somewhere. I do not run Ubuntu and thus do not know exactly, but it was mentioned several times in the archives of this list. At least, you can repl

Re: Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Florent Georges
Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >> Is there anything else I could check out? I cannot find any >> clue of what I did wrong. >> File.mkdir() > Try with File.mkdirs() Thanks. But the parent dir does exists and yes, I've tried that without success ;-) > Note, that catalina.policy is only used whe

Re: Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2010/3/4 Florent Georges : >  Is there anything else I could check out?  I cannot find any > clue of what I did wrong. > File.mkdir() Try with File.mkdirs() Note, that catalina.policy is only used when you are running with a SecurityManager enabled. (Many people run without it). Best regards, Ko

Re: Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Crowther
On 4 March 2010 10:40, Florent Georges wrote: > Hi, > > Within my webapp, I try to create a new directory on the file > system by using File.mkdir(). This webapp has the permissions > read & write on the parent directory: > >grant codeBase "file:${catalina.base}/webapps/myapp/-" { > p

Creating a directory from a webapp

2010-03-04 Thread Florent Georges
Hi, Within my webapp, I try to create a new directory on the file system by using File.mkdir(). This webapp has the permissions read & write on the parent directory: grant codeBase "file:${catalina.base}/webapps/myapp/-" { permission java.io.FilePermission "/somewhere/-", "read,wri