Re: [Geoserver-users] /data directory not writeable

[Russ H. <ru...@ru...>]

# ls -ld /data
drwxrwxrwx 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Apr 25 15:10 /data


For info.,

# ps -efl |grep tomcat
4 S tomcat    1232     1 49  80   0 - 1716271 futex_ 16:49 ?      00:00:46 /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/tomcat9/conf/logging.properties -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources -Dorg.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener.UMASK=0027 -DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/data -Dignore.endorsed.dirs= -classpath /usr/share/tomcat9/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat9/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat9 -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat9 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

Russ

> On 25 Apr 2019, at 17:22, Ian Turton <ijt...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> can you paste the result of "ls -ld /data" in here, I suspect that is isn't what you think it is
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 17:05, Russ Hore <ru...@ru... <mailto:ru...@ru...>> wrote:
> I have just done a clean installation of Ubuntu 19.04, installed Tomcat 9, installed OpenJDK 11 and installed GS 2.15
> 
> I have a folder called /data to which I point GeoServer by editing web.xml
> 
>    <context-param>
>        <param-name>GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR</param-name>
>        <param-value>/data/</param-value>
>     </context-param>
> 
> Now when I start GeoServer I get an error in /var/log/syslog saying /data is not writeable !
> 
> Apr 25 15:14:05 hostname tomcat9[13480]: 25 Apr 15:14:05 ERROR [storage.DefaultStorageFinder] - Found Servlet context parameter GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR set to /data/ , which is not writeable
> 
> Tomcat is running as user ‘tomcat’. The /data folder is owned by tomcat with permissions 777 (I know that is not the best but I am trying to get things working)
> 
> I have tried setting the data folder in her setclasspath.sh
> 
> CATALINA_OPTS="-DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=/data"
> 
> But I get the same error.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this?
> 
> Russ
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