Re: [ecf-dev] Java8 support

[Markus Alexander Kuppe <ecf-dev_eclipse.org@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/04/2014 03:36 AM, Scott Lewis wrote:
> I've retrieved Java8...to my home on ecf-build.osuosl.org, but I don't 
> seem to have permissions in /opt/hudson/tools to make a new directory 
> for it:
> 
> slewis@ecf-builds /opt/hudson/tools $ mkdir Java1.8_b132_x86-64
> mkdir: cannot create directory `Java1.8_b132_x86-64': Permission denied

Hi Scott,

you should be able to change to the tomact user which is the user
account under which Jenkins runs.

sudo su - tomcat

It has permissions to extract the java8 archive to /opt/hudson/tools.

I have done this now and extract java8 to /opt/hudson/tools/jdk1.8.0

M.