[ome-devel] Problem when setting omero.data.dir in omero.properties file

[Luca Lianas]

Hi Josh,

just to be clear, even if I'm building the server from the source code
downloaded from the git repository, I still have to use the 'omero config'
system in order to set up the omero.data.dir variable?
If so, why can I update all the other variables and even add new ones by
changing the etc/omero.properties file skipping the 'omero config' system?

Right now I noticed a strange behaviour...
I created the /OMERO directory in order to start the server even if in my
etc/omero.properties I set the omero.data.dir variable to
/opt/omero_4.4/data (I wanted to check the value of the omero.data.dir
using the python API).
After the server started, the FullText directory was created under the
/opt/omero_4.4/data/ directory not the /OMERO/ one.
In summary, after a build from scratch using the source code, server won't
start if I don't create the /OMERO directory or don't use the 'omero
config' to set up a new omero.data.dir (FATAL: OMERO directory does not
exist: /OMERO), but if I create the /OMERO dir the server uses the
directory specified as the omero.data.dir into the etc/omero.properties
file.... This IS weird :)

Thanks,
Luca

2012/8/29 Josh Moore <josh at glencoesoftware.com>

>
> On Aug 29, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Luca Lianas wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > since OMERO version  4.3, I can't set the omero.data.dir parameter using
> > the omero.properties file.
>
> Correct. etc/omero.properties only shows the defaults and is mostly for
> documentation. It gets copied into blitz.jar (for the version number) but
> otherwise is overwritten by the `omero config` system.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Josh.
>
> > Even if I change the value of this variable, when the server starts it
> > looks for the default /OMERO directory in the file system.
> >
> > In  my omero.properties file I have
> >
> > ...
> > omero.data.dir=/opt/omero_4.4/data/
> > ...
> >
> > but when I run
> >
> > ./dist/bin/omero admin start
> >
> > I get
> > ...
> > FATAL: OMERO directory does not exist: /OMERO
> >
> > and when looking at the omero.properties file into the generated
> blitz.jar
> > I find
> >
> > ...
> > omero.data.dir=/opt/omero_4.4/data/
> > ...
> > (and this is weird...)
> >
> > of course, using the
> >
> > ./dist/bin/omero config set omero.data.dir /opt/omero_4.4/data/
> >
> > fixes the problem.
> >
> > It seems that the only parameter affected by this problem is the
> > omero.data.dir, I never experienced problems with DB config parameters
> and
> > other variables in the omero.properties file (I also added some new vars
> > and everything was fine).
>
> > Luca
>
>


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Data Fusion - Healthcare Flows
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