[chef] setting file permssions in the execution phase

[Richard Murray < >]

Hi I'm quite new to Chef and I'm struggling to set some file permissions using the following cookbook.  I'm using 'ark' to install Tomcat (I know there is a 'Tomcat' cookbook however this always pulls in the OpenJDK and I want to use Oracle's JDK).

The .tar.gz file is extracted OK however I'm unable to start Tomcat as the permissions in /usr/local/tomcat/conf have restricted permissions (read and write permissions for the file owner only).

I have tried using the Chef 'file' and 'directory' resources to update the permissions but these don't seem to have any effect.  Does the code below update permissons in the compile phase or the execution phase?  If so what is the correct way to do this (to update permissions after the ark action has executed).

ark "tomcat" do

   url 'http://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/ftp.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.50/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.50.tar.gz'

   mode 0755

   #version '2.2.0'

   # test this checksum works...

   #checksum '18688f15ade6aa1aff510ff1b5990979 *apache-tomcat-7.0.50.zip'

   #try adding path attribute...

   action :install

end

 

#["/usr/local/tomcat/logs", "/usr/local/tomcat/conf"].each do | path | 

# directory path do

# mode 0777

# recursive true

# end 

#end

#update permissons on tomcat conf files..

Dir[ "/usr/local/tomcat/conf/**" ].each do |path|

  file path do

    mode "0755"

action :touch

  end 

end

Thanks, 

Richard.