Bob makes an excellent point. The find command will take care of any existing directories. Thanks Bob.
Aria. On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Bob Hall said: > > >--- Aria Bamdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Solved!!! >> >> The solution is to use the linux group sticky bit to >> force any files >> created in a directory (and subdirectories) to have >> the same group >> as the parent. For example let's say there are two >> applications, >> one for accounting and one for payroll. If you >> create a directory >> for accounting and one for payroll, each belonging >> to their own >> group and tomcat belonging to both groups, then >> tomcat can read the >> files in both directories but when it creates a >> file, it ends up >> being tomcat user and tomcat group. If you change >> the settings on the >> two directories as follows: >> >> chmod g+ws /accounting >> chmod g+ws /payroll >> > >Aria, good to know the problem is solved. >Wish I had seen your latest post before replying >a few minutes ago. > >To set the group sticky bit on dirs from 'app' down: > >$ find ./app -type d | xargs chmod g+s > >-Bob > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]