I saw the same on suse (but not on gentoo and fedora core 3). See 
http://issues.cocoondev.org/browse/FOR-356 .

I'm happy to live with the chmod workaround until ready to upgrade to 0.7.

  -jean

Nicola Vitale wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed Apache Forrest (v.0.6) under /usr/local/share/apache-forrest.
> 
> Now, if I run the following commands as root:
> 
> # mkdir mysite
> # cd mysite
> # forrest seed
> # forrest
> 
> all works fine.
> 
> But if I do the same as a simple user, I get the following error:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> cocoon 2.2.0-dev
> Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR   2005-03-26 11:26:10.566 [        ] (): Directory '.' is not readable/wri
> table
> Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Directory '.' is not readable/wr
> itable
>         at org.apache.cocoon.bean.CocoonWrapper.getDir(CocoonWrapper.java:253)
>         at org.apache.cocoon.bean.CocoonWrapper.initialize(CocoonWrapper.java:10
> 6)
>         at org.apache.cocoon.bean.CocoonBean.initialize(CocoonBean.java:98)
>         at org.apache.cocoon.Main.main(Main.java:320)
> BUILD FAILED
> /usr/local/share/apache-forrest/src/core/targets/site.xml:43: Java returned: 1
> 
> Note that modifying the file mode of
> 
>     /usr/local/share/apache-forrest/src/core/context/
> 
> to 0777, the issue disappears.
> 
> Any idea? Obviously, I don't want to make that dir writable by everyone.
> 
> These are the permissions:
> 
> nicola> ls -l /usr/local/share/apache-forrest/src/core/
> total 36
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 26 Mar 11:24 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel    512 26 Mar 11:24 context/
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   1650 26 Mar 11:24 forrest.antproxy.xml
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  20857 26 Mar 11:24 forrest.build.xml
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    512 26 Mar 11:24 fresh-site/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 26 Mar 11:24 targets/
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    512 26 Mar 11:24 tasks/
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 26 Mar 11:24 var/
> 
> Thanks, ciao.
> --
> Nicola Vitale
> nivit@email.it