When you follow the instructions on Sun's site for installing the HTMLConverter for Java2, you end up only being able to run the HTMLConverter.sh file as root. This is because all the directories seem to have only rw permissions when the archive is extracted and not rwx permissions. Is there some reason for this? What I did was to create a script called /bin/HTMLConverter like this: ----- snip ------------- #!/bin/sh echo Starting the HTML Converter for Java2 java -classpath $CLASSPATH:/usr/local/java/htmlconv/converter/classes HTMLConverter ----- snip ------------- And changed the permissions on the directories to the /usr/local/java/htmlconv/converter/classes (where I installed it) and all its subdirectories to rwx for user/group/other. Is this some security problem or something? Because I am wondering why Sun would set it up in such a way that only root could run the HTMLConverter. How do all you guru Java programmers run this HTMLConverter? Cheers. Mark.
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