[Live-demo] please avoid chown user:user

[Hamish]

> > please only change the write-permissions of a file only if
> > you really, really have to. AFAIK everything writable is
> > loaded into the memory, when you boot from the DVD.

Andrea wrote:
> The GeoServer data directory needs to be writable in order
> for GeoServer to work.
> By what you said all that I need to do is to change the
> script so that all files are writable by everyone even
> if they are owned by root?
> Something like "chmod a+w -R <data dir>"?

do the files need to be writable, or just the directory?
i.e. does "a+w <data dir>"  but not for the files mean you can
add new data to the dir but the existing files are not needlessly
loaded into memory? or do the datafiles need to be modifiable for
this program?

Hamish