On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Justin Deoliveira <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Currently if the user specified data directory can not be read, either
>> for permissions reasons, or the directory does not exist because of a
>> mistype, etc... the condition is logged at the FINE level.
>>
>> Recently we had a client mention that this wasn't obvious and I tend to
>> agree. Any objections to upping it to either INFO or even WARNING? The code
>> in question lives here:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/src/platform/src/main/java/org/geoserver/platform/GeoServerResourceLoader.java#L611
>>
>> If no objection any preference to INFO or WARNING? I am thinking WARNING.
>>
>
> Agreed it should be higher up. Warning seems like a better choice, as from
> there, we have a good chance nothing
> else will really work.
>

Cool, agreed.

>
> Question, this lookup happens only once at startup?
>

Correct.


> And if nothing is set and we are using the embedded data dir, nothing is
> logged, right?
>

Well eventually the end result of the data dir lookups is logged quite
obviously at INFO.

 ----------------------------------
- GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR: ....
----------------------------------

But the fact that we are falling back isn't logged, so mentioning that
could not hurt. So in the case none of the options work (for whatever
reason) and we have to fallback we could add a logging statement here as
well:

https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/master/src/platform/src/main/java/org/geoserver/platform/GeoServerResourceLoader.java#L631



> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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