topic Passing Environment Variables in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/passing-environment-variables/m-p/174649#M127779 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have been having problems installing Alfresco 2.9 on Ubuntu Hardy,&nbsp; I kept getting Java Heap space errors in the log.&nbsp; I have followed the two guides to installation </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10</A><SPAN> to no avail.&nbsp; Finally I investigated which JAVA_OPTS were being used by adding&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>echo "Using JAVA_OPTS: $JAVA_OPTS"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>To the catalina.sh file.&nbsp; This told me that the JAVA_OPTS settings in the alfresco init script (export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -server -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/alfresco/tmp") were not being passed to catalina.sh.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have been starting alfresco using /etc/init.d/alfresco start, and I am logged in as root for this purpose.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I fixed the problem by putting the JAVA_OPTS settings in startup.sh, from where they correctly get passed to catalina.sh and everything works as it should.&nbsp; My question is what am I missing here?&nbsp; Why do my settings not get passed from the alfresco init script?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:28:43 GMT odomok 2008-08-23T09:28:43Z Passing Environment Variables https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/passing-environment-variables/m-p/174649#M127779 I have been having problems installing Alfresco 2.9 on Ubuntu Hardy,&nbsp; I kept getting Java Heap space errors in the log.&nbsp; I have followed the two guides to installation http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10 to no avail.&nbsp; Finally I investigated which JAVA_OPTS were being use Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:28:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/passing-environment-variables/m-p/174649#M127779 odomok 2008-08-23T09:28:43Z Re: Passing Environment Variables https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/passing-environment-variables/m-p/174650#M127780 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I don't know enough about Linux and how to configure the sudo command to solve this 'the right way' so I would be grateful for any pointers to the correct settings.&nbsp; I found on investigation that the reason my environment variables were not being passed was the default&nbsp; env_reset option in the /etc/sudoers file.&nbsp; I am using a clean install of Hardy for this exercise, so I would have imagined that this problem would exist for everyone else following the wiki.&nbsp; The only difference being my use of root in testing the installation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have altered my /etc/sudoers file so that the env_reset option is now !env_reset, and this solves the problem, but probably leaves a bigger security hole than I need.&nbsp;&nbsp; Any guidance on how to solve this correctly will be much appreciated!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:21:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/passing-environment-variables/m-p/174650#M127780 odomok 2008-08-25T09:21:33Z