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Re: GlassFish v3 .updatetool Directory Configuration

From: Matthew Montgomery <Matthew.Montgomery_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:51:11 -0500

On May 1, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Tom Mueller wrote:

> Matthew,
> The code that looks for that directory is using the user.home Java
> system property. So if you can change your GlassFish configuration
> file to set user.home to something reasonable (maybe the install
> root for glassfish?), then the code should work.

Thanks that works fine.

> Please file a glassfish bug on this, as something is calling this
> method and not catching the IOException properly. I checked the UC
> code that calls that method, and in each case, the exception is
> caught, and error message is logged and a reasonable value is
> returned, i.e., the Exception is not propagated. But it is possible
> that the same code is called from elsewhere without that processing.

Filed here: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8165

>
> Thanks.
> Tom
>
> Christopher Kampmeier wrote:
>> 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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Matthew Montgomery
Web Engineering
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