[NIFI-6980] NiFi can't use symlinks for some conf files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.0, 1.9.2, 1.11.4, 1.12.1
• Component/s: Docker
• Environment: Tested with docker, though this probably affects other environments as well.
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: James Sevener
• Created: 03/Jan/20 16:34
• Updated: 09/Feb/21 03:28

Description

Some files lend themselves to being ephemeral instead of persistent, but live in the conf directory. Logback.xml is a great example, and moving the file to the container and then symlinking works. This doesn't work for any files that the various sh scripts call the prop_replace function in common.sh as the sed call doesn't include --follow-symlinks