Refuses to run if home directory not accessible

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Genome-scale protein function classification

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Refuses to run if home directory not accessible #15

Closed wmnwmn closed 7 years ago

wmnwmn commented 8 years ago

We're trying to set up interproscan to run as a web service, under the www user, which has no home directory. Unfortunately the program throws and exception and exits immediately when it is not able to create the hidden .interproscan-5 directory...even though only an empty file is put into it in our usage. So my question: is this directory really so essential that the program has to have a hard block on it?

gsn7 commented 8 years ago

we will review that behaviour in the next release. to get around the problem you can provide -Duser.home=</wwwuser/writable/directory/> in the java command in interproscan.sh file