Serviio

Posted: **Sun Sep 16, 2012 2:58 am**

I noticed a .dir file with no filename kept popping up in the root of C:\, I used Process Monitor and noticed Serviio service was creating it. All the file contains is a timestamp and a big hash. Just curious what the purpose of this file is...I'm on Windows 8 but never noticed this on Windows 7.

Posted: **Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:05 pm**

Not sure. Might be created by libRTMP to cache security hashes (but normally is under user's tmp folder)

Posted: **Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:22 am**

zip wrote:Not sure. Might be created by libRTMP to cache security hashes (but normally is under user's tmp folder)

Interesting, not sure how that would get redirected to root of C:\, curious if other Windows 8 users see this.

Posted: **Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:37 am**

seus wrote:
zip wrote:Not sure. Might be created by libRTMP to cache security hashes (but normally is under user's tmp folder)

Interesting, not sure how that would get redirected to root of C:\, curious if other Windows 8 users see this.

Running win7 home premium i have this file. I didnt know where it came from

Posted: **Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:17 pm**

It's there possibly because the user running the service doesn't have a 'home' directory?

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:53 am**

zip wrote:It's there possibly because the user running the service doesn't have a 'home' directory?

It's running as SYSTEM under Windows so I guess that's possible, just not sure why I never saw it in the past.

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:20 am**

I have this problem as well. There's a .dir file in C:\

When looking in the Serviio log I see this:

Code:: 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] Serviio DLNA media streaming server v 1.0.1 (rev. 6dbf7c6e334f+) 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] Petr Nejedly 2009-2012 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] http://www.serviio.org 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] Java 1.7.0_05-Oracle Corporation 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] OS Windows 7 amd64 6.1 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] File encoding: windows-1252 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] Headless mode enabled: true 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] User home dir: C:\ 2012-10-31 21:12:57,256 INFO [MediaServer] Temp dir: C:\Windows\TEMP\

I assume it's going into C:\ because that's what the user home dir is? Is there a way to change the user home dir?

Posted: **Thu Nov 01, 2012 3:13 pm**

try to set user.home system property

http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... e&id=21#q3

Posted: **Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:24 am**

zip wrote:try to set user.home system property

http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... e&id=21#q3

What should I set it to? Would my temp folder be an ok place?

Posted: **Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:41 pm**

set it to your user folder, i.e. /Users/username or Documents and Settings/username

Posted: **Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:15 pm**

Hi, I have also problem with dir file on my C drive. I tried edit ServiioService.exe.vmoptions and add there new line with /Users/username, but it not work for me

In my ServiioService.exe.vmoptions is this:

Code:: -Xmx512m user.home="/Users/michpo"

I also tried some modifications, for example "C:\Users\michpo", but also not work

Please can you help me?
Thanks.

Posted: **Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:55 pm**

NOt sure if the above helps, it might be internal to librtmp. Is that such a problem the file is there?

Posted: **Sun Dec 16, 2012 9:41 pm**

Why the dir file is in root of C drive? For what is this file?
I like tidy on my drives. In older versions of Serviio this file was not on root of C drive. Why now yes?
I think that it will be better if the file will be in Serviio folder.

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:03 am**

Try to change the .vmoptions file to:

Code:: -Xmx512m -Duser.home=/Users/michpo

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:01 pm**

Thanks for your reply. After this change I obtaining this error message: Cannot connect to Serviio server, it does not seem to be running. Exiting...
Serviio service not run, and if I want to start it, nothing happens

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:31 pm**

Try this

Code:: -Xmx512m -Duser.home="/Users/michpo"

If it still doesn't work, check the serviio.log

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:16 pm**

Still not working

When I try to run service from task manager, nothing happens. But if I try to run service from service window, then I obtain this error message: "Error 1067 : The Process terminated unexpectedly".
There is no information about this problem in serviio.log file.

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:14 pm**

Ok, the -D has to go before -Xmx

Code:: -Duser.home=/Users/michpo -Xmx512m

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:19 pm**

Nice! It works

Thanks mate.

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