Re: [daemon] Problem with Working Directory

[Gil Baruch]

OMG, was looking for it for so long... no idea how I missed it, I went over
this page at least 5 times...

thanks a lot, worked flawlessly!
GBa.



On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Gary Gregory  wrote:

> Have you tried using --StartPath? See
> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/procrun.html
>
> Gary
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Gil Baruch 
> wrote:
>
> > Seems like I hit a well known issue although I couldn't find
> documentation
> > about it in the FAQ (unfortunately).
> >
> > It seems that Java does not fully support changing the working directory
> > (AKA system property 'user.dir').
> >
> > Some functionality, such as new File(relativePath) will not be affected
> by
> > a change of 'user.dir' system property and instead, the file path would
> be
> > constructed out of the actual working directory that the JVM started
> from.
> >
> > However, when using the Daemon, I cannot specify the directory from where
> > to perform the execution of the JVM...
> >
> > what am I missing?
> >
> > thanks,
> > GBa.
> >
>

Re: [daemon] Problem with Working Directory

[Gary Gregory]

Have you tried using --StartPath? See
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/procrun.html

Gary

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Gil Baruch  wrote:

> Seems like I hit a well known issue although I couldn't find documentation
> about it in the FAQ (unfortunately).
>
> It seems that Java does not fully support changing the working directory
> (AKA system property 'user.dir').
>
> Some functionality, such as new File(relativePath) will not be affected by
> a change of 'user.dir' system property and instead, the file path would be
> constructed out of the actual working directory that the JVM started from.
>
> However, when using the Daemon, I cannot specify the directory from where
> to perform the execution of the JVM...
>
> what am I missing?
>
> thanks,
> GBa.
>