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Re: GlassFish v3 .updatetool Directory Configuration

From: Christopher Kampmeier <Christopher.Kampmeier_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 16:26:50 -0500

Hi Matthew,

I'm ccing the UC dev project team and the GF v3 quality aliases for
consideration of the issue.

Thanks,
Chris

Matthew Montgomery wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So far I have come up empty in various searches on this. I have need
> to run GlassFish v3 as the webservd user. By default, this user does
> not have a home directory. A fresh install of GF v3 from the .zip file
> produces the following error since this user can't write to the
> specified directory.
>
> [#|2009-05-01T21:02:21.604+0000|SEVERE|sun-glassfish|com.sun.pkg.client.SystemInfo|_ThreadID=13;_ThreadName=Thread-3;|The
> log message is null.
> java.io.IOException: Unable to access properties: mkdirs() failed:
> //.updatetool
>
> I looked around for a config option but so far I haven't found
> anything. Is there a way to set this directory?
>
> --
> Matthew Montgomery
> Web Engineering
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
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