[ZEPPELIN-1660] Home directory references (i.e. ~/zeppelin/) in zeppelin-env.sh don't work as expected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.2, 0.7.0
• Component/s: conf, zeppelin-server

Environment

Java 7
RHEL 6

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ruslan Dautkhanov
• Created: 15/Nov/16 01:09
• Updated: 24/Jan/17 16:36

Description

We want to have template for Zeppelin conf files and a skelton of user-owned directories for each Zeppelin instance, so have to have configuration file zeppelin-env.sh to not have absolute paths, but relative to each user's home directory. "~" unix-type directory references don't work in Zeppelin.

Have following settings in zeppelin-env.sh that reference current user's home directory subdirectories under "zeppelin":

export ZEPPELIN_LOG_DIR="~/zeppelin/log"
export ZEPPELIN_PID_DIR="~/zeppelin/run"
export ZEPPELIN_WAR_TEMPDIR="~/zeppelin/tmp"
export ZEPPELIN_NOTEBOOK_DIR="~/zeppelin/notebooks"

Attempt to start zeppelin.sh --config ~/zeppelin/conf/
shows

Log dir doesn't exist, create ~/zeppelin/log
Pid dir doesn't exist, create ~/zeppelin/run
Pid dir doesn't exist, create ~/zeppelin/notebooks

Zeppelin actually creates a directory names "~"/zeppelin (yes, with tilde character, with underneath directory named "zeppelin") in the current directory.

We want to have template for Zeppelin conf files and a skelton of user-owned directories for each Zeppelin instance, so have to have configuration file zeppelin-env.sh to not have absolute paths, but relative to each user's home directory. "~" unix-type directory references don't work in Zeppelin.

ps. We also tried to use "~user/zeppelin" - for the sake of completeness of the tests – the same issue.