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Enhancement
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Resolution: Duplicate
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P5
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None
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jaws-1.0
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x86
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generic
feedback request from:
> Dan Makovec
> Fat Canary Software
> e-mail: ###@###.###
> ICQ: 1398090
> This mail was about to turn into a question, before I realised after
> looking at the Exceptions tab that the reason it failed was because I
> had installed JWS as root (after using sudo to become root). The
> problem with this was that it created ~/.javaws for storing
> configuration and cache files, where "~" was my regular home directory.
> The directoy was owned by root and without permissions for me as a
> regular user (which is how I launch Netscape) to write to the directory.
>
> I think that it might be a good idea to add a note to newbies to ensure
> that their cache directory is writable in the documentation. Even
> better, have the popup dialog say that it couldn't write to the cache
> dir and that the user should check permissions. Much less cryptic and
> easier to sort out! :)
>
> Dan Makovec
> Fat Canary Software
> e-mail: ###@###.###
> ICQ: 1398090
> This mail was about to turn into a question, before I realised after
> looking at the Exceptions tab that the reason it failed was because I
> had installed JWS as root (after using sudo to become root). The
> problem with this was that it created ~/.javaws for storing
> configuration and cache files, where "~" was my regular home directory.
> The directoy was owned by root and without permissions for me as a
> regular user (which is how I launch Netscape) to write to the directory.
>
> I think that it might be a good idea to add a note to newbies to ensure
> that their cache directory is writable in the documentation. Even
> better, have the popup dialog say that it couldn't write to the cache
> dir and that the user should check permissions. Much less cryptic and
> easier to sort out! :)
>
- duplicates
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JDK-4626731 multi user support
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- Resolved
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