Re: Strange error after upgrading to 1.4.1

["Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@databasix.com>]

On 2003.03.28 03:44 Markus Blaurock wrote:
> > > system preferences get stored in /etc. You probably don't have
> write
>        ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>
> > That's a strange place to put the user's preferences. Is there any
> way
> > to override that to drop the preferences file(s) into the user's
>
> It's not the users preferences, its the system preferences. There is
> one
> .java directory for each of them.
>
> > directory? BTW, as I said in my previous email, the 1.4JDK is
> creating
> > the .java directory in my home directory. Is it also creating a
> world
> > one in /etc?
>
> yes, see above.
>
> BTW: My home directory is on NFS and i have no problems with
> preferences :)

That was apparently it. I've run the JDK once as root and it created 
the /etc/j2se/1.4 directory with all files. Thanks for the pointers, 
mates. :)

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