(cleaning the post, see the previous in the same thread) Abstract : tryin' to install xwiki 1.0 beta 2 (debian, apache, tomcat container, mod_jk connector, MySQL database) Hi Vincent, U force me to modify the /etc/passwd in order my tomcat user can login to a shell ;) # starting tomcat as root in the tomcat log folder didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5# pwd /var/log/tomcat5.5 didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5# /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart Stopping Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5 (not running). Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5. didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5# # login as tomcat55, the user running tomcat didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5# su - tomcat55 tomcat55@didascalie:~$ cd /var/log/tomcat5.5/ tomcat55@didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5$ touch toto tomcat55@didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5$ ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 0 2007-01-23 14:41 admin.2007-01-23.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 8959 2007-01-23 14:42 catalina_2007-01-23.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 855 2007-01-23 14:42 catalina.2007-01-23.log prwx------ 1 tomcat55 root 0 2007-01-23 14:42 catalina.out -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 0 2007-01-23 14:41 host-manager.2007-01-23.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 0 2007-01-23 14:41 localhost.2007-01-23.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 0 2007-01-23 14:41 manager.2007-01-23.log -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat55 nogroup 0 2007-01-23 14:43 toto tomcat55@didascalie:/var/log/tomcat5.5$ So, the user running tomcat has the good rights to write files in the tomcat log folder ... :) thanks, -- Julien Oix UFR d'Informatique - Université Paris Diderot Bureau 5C01 (5ème étage) 175 rue du Chevaleret 75013 PARIS Tel : +33 (0) 144 278 504 Mobile : +33 (0) 664 392 207 --------------------------------------------- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html