Re: Properties init: Could not determine current working directory. -- JAVA400-L

Subject: Re: Properties init: Could not determine current working directory.
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:08:11 -0600
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 11:26 AM Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're going to leave public without permission to write in prod (as you
should IMHO)

You'll probably need to create an actual home directory for the job's user.

Correct on both points.

I did talk to our infrastructure manager and he changed the perms, on the
dev system, for / and /home to 'drwxrwsr-x'.

I re-ran the RPG program that invokes the java code and it still works
correctly.

I was just added to our IBM account, so I think I'm going to open a case.

david

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