PATH - bingo! The config + the log message are a bit misleading there, IMHO.
The "dir" is documented as: dir - dir to use as the current working directory. default="." And its default value is defined as: <str name="dir">solr/bin</str> The error was: Cannot run program "snapshooter" (in directory "/foo/jetty-6.1.3/solr/bin"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory All of this makes you (me) think that Solr uses the dir + exe name to call snapshooter with the full path, a la "/foo/jetty-6.1.3/solr/bin/snapshooter", which must not be the case. Moreover, it looks like even though I set Solr home to be outside Jetty directory, one has to put the dir that is the Solr home dir under Jetty, or at least link <jetty>/solr/bin to <solr home>/bin, OR change that "dir" to be ../solr/bin (but this didn't work without adding /full/path/to/solr/bin to PATH). Otis ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:20:28 AM Subject: Re: snapshooter no go : Here is a puzzling one. I can't get Solr to invoke snaphooter properly. : Solr claims my snapshooter is not where I said it is: : : SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "snapshooter" (in : directory "solr/bin"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or : directory off the top of my head, i suspect the problem may be that there is not PATH env var so it can't find "snapshooter" but it might be able to find "./snapshooter" either that or... : $ cd /foo/jetty-6.1.3 : $ ls -al solr/bin/snapshooter : -rwxr-xr-x 1 otis otis 2624 Jun 20 02:53 solr/bin/snapshooter ...what does "ls -ald solr solr/bin" tell you? are the directories world executable (assuming jetty isn't running as otis) -Hoss
