Re: [Exist-open] a very primitive question

[Craig B. <cra...@ma...>]

> On Feb 3, 2023, at 8:29 AM, Martin Mueller <mar...@no...> wrote:
> 
> Where on a Linux box is exist usually store, and how do you look for it?  This is a very primitive question by somebody who hasn’t yet mastered the complexities of the “find” command.

It's wherever you tell the installer to put it, with different default locations on different platforms.  If you know where the eXist application lives, you can look for it in your configuration:

$ grep 'files=' etc/conf.xml
                  files="/data/existdata">

or in your log file:

$ grep DATA_DIR logs/exist.log
2023-02-03 13:25:31,211 [main] INFO  (SyncTask.java [configure]:77) - Using DATA_DIR: /data/existdata. Minimal disk space required for database to continue operations: 1024mb

Note that "/data/existdata" is what I use but is not the default, which I believe is "data/" underneath the eXist home directory, which looks like it has "/opt/exist" as a default, but that too can be overridden at installation time.

On macOS, the default data directory is "~/Library/Application Support/org.exist".

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