I was editing the standalone.xml and saw the following warning about the file being edited elsewhere: E325: ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name ".standalone.xml.swp" owned by: root dated: Tue Apr 19 23:58:56 2011 file name: ~jason/devel/jboss-as/build/src/main/resources/standalone/co nfiguration/standalone.xml modified: no user name: jason host name: guinness.local process ID: 4902 While opening file "standalone.xml" dated: Tue Apr 19 23:58:56 2011 I knew it was not possible for Jason to be doing so, so I checked the original download and do see the swp files in there: [112](ironmaiden:tmp)> unzip /home/svn/Makara/jboss-7.0.0.Beta3.zip Archive: /home/svn/Makara/jboss-7.0.0.Beta3.zip ... inflating: jboss-7.0.0.Beta3/standalone/configuration/.standalone.xml.swo inflating: jboss-7.0.0.Beta3/standalone/configuration/.standalone.xml.swp _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev