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Re: what directories does Glassfish 3.1.1 self-extracting installer touch outside of directory it runs from?

From: Sathyan Catari <Sathyan.Catari_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:27 -0800

Also, please make sure that your download is complete. Just run unzip on
glassfish-3.1.1-unix.sh
to see if the extraction is successful under /tmp directory.

Thanks
Sathyan

On 2/6/12 11:25 AM, forums_at_java.net wrote:
> I'm trying to install (CentOS 6.2) the self-extracting Glassfish 3.1.1
> file
> as a glassfish user in group glassfish:
>
> # sh ./glassfish-3.1.1-unix.sh -l
> /home/glassfish/software/glassfish_log -q
>
> I'm running into a "permission denied" error before the installer's
> GUI comes
> up. I've already chmod 777 the tmp/ directory to enable access for
> glassfish
> user. I also noticed that the installer uses the var/tmp/ directory as
> well.
> However, I'm still getting the same "permission denied" error.
>
> With tmp/ and var/tmp/ directories being made chmod 777, I wonder what
> else
> the installer is trying to access that it doesn't have permission? Does
> anyone have a list of directories that Glassfish touches during the
> self-extracting install so I can make sure that glassfish user can access
> them?
>
>
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