OK !!! ALMOST - Re: Anyone have any other ideas on my deployment woes?

From: James Cicenia (jame..imijon.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 17:51:19 EST

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    I finally got an error

    "HOME environment variable is not set"

    Where do I set that ?

    Thanks for everyones patience I think I am almost home again.

    James Cicenia

    On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

    > James,
    >
    > First, are you logging the wotaskd errors? ........ this will let
    > you see what the launch problem is:
    >
    > See here for info on how to set that up. Then launch with WOMonitor
    > and then go a cat the log to see what happened. See the section
    > Where's my stderr on this page:
    > http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WO/Web+Applications-Deployment-Common+Pitfalls+and+Troubleshooting
    >
    > *IMPORTANT* Pay attention to last sentence in that section ......
    > otherwise no apps will launch at all!
    > "The one problem now is that typically WebObjects apps run as
    > appserver user, which means they won't be able to write to this
    > file. To fix this, you can 'touch /var/log/webobjects.err' as root,
    > and then chown the blank file to whatever user your WebObjects apps
    > run as."
    >
    > My WILD GUESS:
    > 1) Permissions still wrong somewhere
    >
    > OR
    >
    > 2) Something in /Library/WebObjects/Extensions is conflicting with
    > your app (maybe there is a log4j in there which is conflicting with
    > one that is already in your frameworks .... ERJars ... for example.
    > If you must have log4j in there, then make it the exact same version
    > as the one in your framework ... but longterm (and this is MY
    > OPINION) take everything OUT of that WO Extensions dir ....... those
    > jars are dynamically added to classpath when wotaskd launches. Those
    > are not included in classpath when you launch on command line NOR
    > when developing in Eclipse... again this is a wild guess.
    >
    > anyway, try getting the wotaskd log going .... and be sure to report
    > back if success or failure :-)
    >
    > Regards, Kieran
    >
    >
    > On Dec 20, 2007, at 1:27 PM, James Cicenia wrote:
    >
    >> Hello -
    >>
    >> I am really very stumped.
    >>
    >> The only thing I can think of why my app won't run from the
    >> JavaMonitor has to do with something with my new Eclipse/WOLips
    >> setup, compile and build.
    >>
    >> BUT, why would it run just great from the command line?
    >>
    >> Does anyone have something else for me to look at?
    >>
    >> my app.woa has me as owner (admin) and appserveradm as the group.
    >> The privileges are: drwxrwx-x and they have been applied
    >> recursively.
    >>
    >> Anyone?
    >>
    >> Thanks
    >> James Cicenia
    >>
    >>
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