Why can’t Liberty see my bootstrap.properties? The answer is in the title!

I put the osgi address and port information into the bootstrap.properties file, but it wasn’t being picked up. A couple of hours later I found out why – the answer is that Liberty could see my bootstrap.properties file.

The command

ls -lT bootstrap.properties

gave

- untagged    T=off -rwx------   1 OMVSKERN SYS1 ... bootstrap.properties     

which means the started task running Liberty did not have access to it, only the owner had rwx access. Java did not process it, because it could not see it.

I used the command

chmod 744 bootstrap.properties

and next time I started the Liberty instance, it could find the file.

My file had

osgi.console = 10.1.1.2:5400

The TSO command

tso netstat allconn (port 5400

saying – show all the connections which are, or were recently active, filtered by port 5400

gave

User Id  Conn     State
-------  ----     -----
CSQ9WEB  00000139 Listen
  Local Socket:   ::ffff:10.1.1.2..5400
  Foreign Socket: ::ffff:0.0.0.0..0

Showing it is active.