Shared Client Side 'TMP' Directory Causes EDQ Director to Crash on Unix (Client) Systems (Doc ID 2217187.1)

Last updated on JUNE 09, 2023

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Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) UI clients need to store local data on the client system. This is used for both persistent caches (processor library) and temporary jar storage (blueprints & database connectors).

A unique location within the Java temporary directory is used. On a Windows client platform, the Java temporary directory is located within the per-user AppData area. On a Unix client platform the Java temporary directory is /tmp (or /var/tmp), which is shared among all users.

On Unix the cache and blueprints directories are located within a directory which includes the current user name, so will not be shared among different users. Unfortunately, the database connector storage does not use this directory and instead uses a common directory in /tmp. This shared directory is created by the first user to run a client; if a different user on the
system runs a client they will not be able to write to the directory. Errors like:

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