Re: Build failing - can't find SVN?

On 3/28/06, Varban <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> error=2 is command not found so the global path must not be working for the
> system account. You might want to check the global path variable for typos
> and check if the local path variable for your user contains the same path to
> the svn.exe file or is it only in the global path.
>
> The global path should be picked up as soon as you create a new console which
> should be the case when you restart tomcat but then system accounts are weird
> sometimes and it is possible that all system account processes run in a child
> console and thus not picking up the changes. Restart is worth trying.

The reboot did it.  Like I said, I have no clue when it was last
rebooted, and neither did the sysadmin.  Which probably means we're
behind on patches from MS as well.

> I am not sure that running Anthill under a system account is a good idea and
> would recommend that you switch to either a local or domain user. This way
> you can customize the environment for Anthill much easier (without using
> global variables and settings) and add additional protection for the system.

That would require that we reconfigure Tomcat - we already had Tomcat
in the environment, Anthill is just along for the ride.  I may bring
up making this change sometime down the line, but not for a while;
we're short-staffed right now and everyone is swamped.