Specifying temp directory?

Just to give the reasoning behind this - I run several agents off the
same installation on a network drive and I seem to be getting collisions
in this temp directory. I would like to be able to specify for each
agent that it uses /tmp instead of /network/buildAgent/temp.
R

Is this currently possible? If not, is it planned before final Agra
release?
R

Hi Robert,

there's the property "tempDir" that can be specified in the agent-properties.
When installing a new agent, you'll find this in the default-properties:

tempDir=../temp

On the other hand, I also found out that the agent always uses /tmp to save its
patch files. This is kinda inconsistent though.

HTH,
Sascha

Hi,
It seems that build 3811 (and earlier?) uses buildAgent/temp in addition
to workDir. Can I specify this in the build.properties file or is it
hard-coded?
Thanks,
R

Hi Sascha,
Thanks for the hint. I had guessed at this property name, but it
doesn't seem to do anything with my install (build 3811) so I thought I
had just guessed wrong - if I run two simultaneous builds from the same
install directory I still get suspicious messages like
/network/buildAgent/temp/teamcity.tmp/idea39451runner/test-output.xml:43:
The following error occurred while executing this line:
java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/network/buildAgent/temp/teamcity.tmp/idea39451runner/test-output.xml
(No such file or directory)
even if I've set tempDir=/tmp/buildAgent/temp

At least you've confirmed for me that it's supposed to work!
http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/TW-1989
JB, any comment?
R

Hi Sascha,

On the other hand, I also found out that the agent
always uses /tmp to save its
patch files. This is kinda inconsistent though.

Will be fixed in the next EAP

Kind regards,
KIR

Robert,

Before each build starts, we cleanup temp directory of the agent.
So you cannot share same temp directory between two agents.

Hope this helps,
KIR

Sure, but I can't specify an alternate location. I have added the line
tempDir=/tmp/buildAgent/temp
to my build.properties but it doesn't seem to be taken into account -
the temp directory in the buildAgent install directory is always used.
R

Robert, that's my fault - there is really a bug when reading tempDir property. The fix will be available in the next EAP. Thanks for the report!

Kind regards,
KIR