scratchdir fails for multi-user installs ---------------------------------------- Key: JBWEB-16 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWEB-16 Project: JBoss Web Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Tomcat Module Affects Versions: JBossWeb embedded - AS 4.0.1 Reporter: Norman Richards Assigned To: Remy Maucherat The setup was the basic multi-user scenario described in the dev environment admin training slides (module 8). Each user has his own data/tmp/deploy directory, but the conf directory is shared between all users and not writable. This produces a a FATAL log message: 11:37:06,717 FATAL [EmbeddedServletOptions] The scratchDir you specified: /private/tmp/jboss-4.0.2/server/test/work/jboss.web/localhost/jmx-console is unusable. This also causes exceptions when the server shuts down. The jboss.web directory should probably go under the data or tmp directory so that it can exist on a per-user basis. Another option is to allow variable substitution in the server.xml file so that the scratchdir can be set based on the $[user.name} property. See the admin module 8, slides 5-16 for the complete configuration if my description isn't clear.