Owner of symbolic link should be the same owner of the extracted directory

[khuongdp]

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[bryanwb]

is that possible? every time i create a symbolic link it is owned by root, whether or not

@khuongdb, what OS and distro are you using?

[khuongdp]

Running RHEL 6.2 x86_64. The same here the symbolic link is owned by root. Maybe combine it with lchown

When i run this I expect the link to be owned by 'user1'

ark "app" do
url "http://someurl"
version "1.0"
prefix_root "/pack"
home_dir "/pack/default"
owner 'user1'
action :install
end

To solve the problem I just run a ruby_block after this to chown the link.

[bryanwb]

what problem does it cause that the link is owned by root? please help me understand. I don't see the lchown command on my rhel 6.2 system. what package provides it?

[khuongdp]

Sorry my mistake. It should has been chown. I.e. when I what to unpack jboss-4.2.3.GA.tar.gz I want to use this folder structure.

/var/jboss-4.2.3.GA
/var/jboss -> /var/jboss-4.2.3.GA

Using:

ark "jboss" do
url "http://url/jboss-4.2.3.GA.tar.gz"
version "1.0"
prefix_root "/var"
home_dir "/var/jboss"
owner 'jboss'
action :install
end

The jboss user will own the installation folder /var/jboss-4.2.3.GA. Because other programs is only using the link /var/jboss I want the permission to be the same as the concrete folder so I will not have any permission issue if the owner of the link is the same.