(Is the "Build System" Component for installer issues? This should be applied to ALL versions, but that choice is missing. I marked it 1.4 since that was the latest complaint on the UserML, but I noticed it with 1.2.2.) This is a common issue on the MLs. [From my original thread on the mailing list!] The installer be modified to set the owner. Two lines should solve this: LENYA_OWNER=lenya chown -R $LENYA_OWNER $tomcat.webapps.dir Just need to figure out where to put them. Gregor responded: The owner would have to be a build property. More: The owner should be configured and set for all platforms (Tomcat, Jetty, other.) It should be ignored on MSWindows (since it does not have process security.)
under all sane operating systems, setting the owner implies root privileges. running a complex (and potentially hostile) compile as root cannot be recommended. hence, if you want to have restrictive rights on the files (which is certainly a good idea), become root and chown -R them manually.
Renaming Lenya 1.4 to 2.0