[GeoNetwork-users] Problems with outsourcing the "geonetwork-data" directory

GeoNetwork GeoNetwork User
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Dear all,

since reinstalling our server with Ubuntu 20.04 and Tomcat9 we have problems to swap out the geonetwork-data directory under GeoNetwork 3.12.2.
We have entered the following instruction in the file "/usr/share/tomcat9/bin/setenv.sh":
export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Dgeonetwork.dir=/data/geonetwork/geonetwork-data".

However, the data directory specified there is not accepted by GeoNetwork. GeoNetwork continues to use the default settings and writes the data to the directory "/var/lib/tomcat9/geonetwork/WEB-INF/data". Using Ubuntu 18.04 and tomcat8 the application works fine with the same settings and the same permissions and accepted the external "geonetwork-data" directory without any problems.

What could be the cause of the problem? Does anyone have a tip or similar experience?

Regards
Burghardt

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Stadt Wolfsburg
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Hello Burghardt,

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 5:18 PM Burghardt via GeoNetwork-users <
geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

Dear all,

since reinstalling our server with Ubuntu 20.04 and Tomcat9 we have
problems to swap out the geonetwork-data directory under GeoNetwork 3.12.2.
We have entered the following instruction in the file
"/usr/share/tomcat9/bin/setenv.sh":
export CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS
-Dgeonetwork.dir=/data/geonetwork/geonetwork-data".

However, the data directory specified there is not accepted by GeoNetwork.
GeoNetwork continues to use the default settings and writes the data to the
directory "/var/lib/tomcat9/geonetwork/WEB-INF/data". Using Ubuntu 18.04
and tomcat8 the application works fine with the same settings and the same
permissions and accepted the external "geonetwork-data" directory without
any problems.

What could be the cause of the problem? Does anyone have a tip or similar
experience?

What do you mean with "not accepted"? What is shown as data directory in
Admin Console -> Statistics and Status -> Information -> Data directory ?

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