Well, since solr is running under Tomcat, I would assume it inherits the rights from it. Now question is, what are the rights the Tomcat runs with under Windows? On the windows shell: in Win 7 for exampe in order to perform Admin level changes you need to start it under Admin.
Dmitry On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Mike O'Leary <tmole...@uw.edu> wrote: > I have been putting together an application using Quartz to run several > indexing jobs in sequence using SolrJ and Tomcat on Windows. I would like > the Quartz job to do the following: > > 1. Delete index directories from the cores so each indexing job > starts fresh with empty indexes to populate. > > 2. Start the Tomcat server. > > 3. Run the indexing job. > > 4. Stop the Tomcat server. > > 5. Copy the index directories to an archive. > > Steps 2-5 work fine, but I haven't been able to find a way to delete the > index directories from within Java. I also can't delete them from a Windows > command shell window: I get an error message that says "Access is denied". > The reason for this is that the index directories and files have the owner > "BUILTIN\Administrators". Although I am an administrator on this machine, > the fact that these files have a different owner means that I can only > delete them in a Windows command shell window if I start it with "Run as > administrator". I spent a bunch of time today trying every Java function > and Windows shell command I could find that would let me change the owner > of these files, grant my user account the capability to delete the files, > etc. Nothing I tried worked, likely because along with not having > permission to delete the files, I also don't have permission to give myself > permission to delete the files. > > At a certain point I stopped wondering how to change the files owner or > permissions and started wondering why the files have > "BUILTIN\Administrators" as owner, and the permissions associated with that > owner, in the first place. Is there somewhere in the Solr or Tomcat > configuration files, or in the SolrJ code, where I can set who the owner of > files written to the index directories should be? > Thanks, > Mike > -- Regards, Dmitry Kan
