SCM file in running user's directory, scm-manager is not self-contained

[Guillem Liarte]

I have noticed that there is a number of files that scm created in my root directory:

/root
tree .scm/ -L 2

.scm/
|-- config
|   |-- config.xml
|   |-- git.xml
|   |-- hg.xml
|   |-- ldap.xml
|   |-- svn.xml
|   |-- users.xml
|   `-- version.txt
|-- lib
|   `-- python
|-- logs
|   `-- scm-manager.log
|-- plugins
|   |-- aopalliance
|   |-- classpath.xml
|   |-- com
|   |-- javax
|   |-- org
|   `-- sonia
`-- repositories
    |-- git
    |-- hg
    `-- svn

14 directories, 9 files

I do not like that at all. Application files belong to the application directories, should have nothing to do in a user's homedir. While this may be handy for captive installations where there is not access to root account, I would expect all this to go to the /opt/scm-manager.

As a workaround, it is possible to run the application as scm-manager user and set the user's home directory as /opt/scm-manager, but it will still be rather strange.

Is it possible to have an installation where all files are under /opt/scm-manager?

If the application is run by root, it will be inherently dangerous to have those file hanging in /root
If it is run by a normal user, it is still a problem with a split location for configuration and application files (plug-in, for example)

Is it possible to do either of this:

- have the files that exists in ~/.scm placed to /opt/scm-manager  ?
- have a new version that does not place files in the users' homedir?

Thanks.

[Sebastian Sdorra]

Hi,
You can move the Scm home directory with a java system property or a environment variable. Please have a look at the faq. I'm currently on vacation, so answers from me could be rare in this week.

Sebastian

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[Guillem Liarte]

Sebastian,

Of the options given:

How can I change the SCM-Manager home directory?

You could change the SCM-Manager home directory in a few ways:

• Edit the scm.properties (WEB-INF/classes) file and add the path to your folder f.e. scm.home=/var/scm
• Set an environment variable SCM_HOME with the path of your directory
• Start your application server with a java property called scm.home f.e. -Dscm.home=/var/scm

Only the highlighted one is desirable. Setting environmental variables would be a less bad way, but still more a hack than a solution. I will not comment about the third, not a good idea to override such thing s form the JVM, but I am not an expert.

I would say the only good manageable solution would be to set the configuration time at deploy time. However ...

... that file does not exist in my installation:

.
|-- bin
|   |-- scm-server
|   `-- scm-server.bat
|-- conf
|   |-- logging.xml
|   `-- server-config.xml
|-- lib
|   |-- commons-daemon-1.0.10.jar
|   |-- javax.servlet-2.5.0.v201103041518.jar
|   |-- jetty-ajp-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-continuation-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-http-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-io-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-jmx-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-security-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-server-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-servlet-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-util-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-webapp-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   |-- jetty-xml-7.6.13.v20130916.jar
|   `-- scm-server-1.34.jar
|-- libexec
|   |-- jsvc-darwin
|   |-- jsvc-linux-i686
|   |-- jsvc-linux-x86_64
|   |-- jsvc-solaris-i386
|   |-- jsvc-solaris-x86_64
|   |-- prunmgr.exe
|   |-- prunsrv-amd64.exe
|   |-- prunsrv.exe
|   `-- prunsrv-ia64.exe
|-- README.txt
`-- var
    |-- log
    |   |-- scm-server.err
    |   `-- scm-server.out
    |-- scm-server.pid
    `-- webapp
        |-- docroot
        |   `-- index.html
        `-- scm-webapp.war

8 directories, 33 files

It does not exist anywhere in ~/.scm  nor /opt/scm-manager, I cannot find any directory named WEB-INF either. Anywhere.

This is as per the faq here:

https://bitbucket.org/sdorra/scm-manager/wiki/faq

If anybody knows the answer to this in Sebastian's absence, please let me know, and many thanks in advance.

G

[Sebastian Sdorra]

Hi,

The scm.properties file is inside of the scm-webapp.war file and it is more an option for other application server (e.g. tomcat). You could also create a file at /etc/default/scm-server and set the SCM_HOME environment variable there.

Sebastian

2013/11/19 Guillem Liarte <guillem...@googlemail.com>

[Carlos Alberto Costa Beppler]

Hello.

I´m having the same problem here using version 1.35 on Debian wheezy. 

I tried to create the file /etc/default/scm-server with the following content:

SCM_HOME="/opt/scm-server"

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64"

But the /root/.scm directory continues to be created.

My server is installet on /opt/scm-server.

[Sebastian Sdorra]

Hi,

The file has to be executable.

Sebastian

[Carlos Alberto Costa Beppler]

I granted the execute permission, but the problem persists.

ls -l /etc/default

total 80

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  346 Apr 15  2013 acpid

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  222 May 16  2012 bsdmainutils

-rw------- 1 root root  384 Jan 27  2013 cacerts

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  285 Nov 11 14:15 console-setup

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  955 Jul  3  2012 cron

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  297 Jun 12  2013 dbus

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   92 Oct 15  2012 devpts

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1203 Nov 11 17:14 grub

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   86 Oct 15  2012 halt

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  657 Dec 11  2012 hwclock

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  150 Nov 11 14:15 keyboard

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   74 Nov 11 14:14 locale

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  306 Mar 14  2013 networking

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1756 Dec 30  2012 nss

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  620 Nov 11 14:25 rcS

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  152 Mar  5  2013 rsyslog

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   77 Feb 28 15:43 scm-server

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  133 Feb  8  2013 ssh

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1115 Dec 17  2012 tmpfs

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118 May 25  2012 useradd

[Carlos Alberto Costa Beppler]

I managed to get it working.

I change my /etc/default/scm-server to this:

export SCM_HOME="/var/opt/scm-server"

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64"

The it started to save the files on /var/opt/scm-server directory.