Environment Variables

JAVA_HOME

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is used by FishEye to select the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to be used to run FishEye. If this environment variable is not set, FishEye will use whatever Java executable is available on the path. In Linux systems, this may sometimes be GCJ-based which causes some problems running FishEye.

See the instructions on setting JAVA_HOME.

FISHEYE_OPTS

FishEye uses the FISHEYE_OPTS environment variable to pass parameters to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) used to run FishEye. This is typically used to set the Java heap size available to FishEye. With a Sun JVM, for example, you would use:

FISHEYE_OPTS=-Xmx256m

This would give FishEye a 256 MByte heap. See Tuning FishEye for more information.

It is possible to put other JVM options into the FISHEYE_OPTS environment variable. For example, the -Xrs options should be used if running FishEye as a service under Windows, to prevent the JVM closing when an interactive user logs out.

FISHEYE_ARGS

FISHEYE_ARGS are the arguments which will be passed to FishEye when it is started. You can set this to --debug, for example, if you always want to have FishEye debugging put into the FishEye log files

FISHEYE_LIBRARY_PATH

The FISHEYE_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable tells FishEye where it should look to load any additional native libraries.

FISHEYE_HOME

FISHEYE_HOME is the location of the FishEye application. By default (i.e. if this environment variable is not set) FishEye will assume the application is located in the directory above the fisheyectl script.

If you want to use this variable, you should set it to the location of your current FishEye installation. This is useful so that other parts of your system can refer to the current FishEye installation. For example, $FISHEYE_HOME/bin/start.sh is where you will find the current startup script.

FISHEYE_INST

The FISHEYE_INST variable tells FishEye where to store its data. If you wish to separate FishEye's data from its application files in FISHEYE_HOME, you should use this variable. Read more about this variable in the Installation Guide.