Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

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#1

Hi,

for some time, whenever I used LibreOffice, I'm left with an empty but
annoying file called "derby.log" in my home directory. As I never told LO to
create this - to me - useless file, I obviously don't want it polluting my
$HOME, especially as it very rudely gets in the way of tab completion to
"devel" :wink:

Well, surely the issue isn't all that big, still it keeps annoying me on a
pretty regular basis. Unfortunately I can't tell with what LibreOffice
upgrade this behaviour started. I'm currently running 4.2.8.2 which is
what Gentoo has marked stable right now.

Is there any fix?

TIA and kind regards,
Malte

#2

Hello Malte,

It's probably because you use some Java-component in LO.

I found the following discussion which will be very helpfull for you.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004327/getting-rid-of-derby-log

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#3

Hello Dries,

thanks for the pointer. In fact German Post's online stamping extension is
causing it. Not being a Java guy I'll now have to try and distill the below
link (that I found before but didn't see how to make use of it) into some way
to set the log file path for that extension - if there is such a way without
access to the source.

Kind regards,
Malte

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Is it really worth keeping the Extenion/Add-on? I'd be really tempted
to uninstall it and find some other way to do whatever it does.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Or, maybe a less radical solution, you could notify the developer of this
extension about this behavior. This issue might have gone completely
unnoticed, seeing the mess some dev harbor in their home directory. It
might be helpful for other users too.

Of course if the dev answer something like "wontfix" then...

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
+1
That is a MUCH better approach! You can always start down that path
and then maybe uninstall it for a while until the dev has had a chance
to look into it.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Or, maybe a less radical solution, you could notify the developer of this
extension about this behavior. This issue might have gone completely
unnoticed, seeing the mess some dev harbor in their home directory. It
might be helpful for other users too.

Of course if the dev answer something like "wontfix" then...

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Cley Faye
http://cleyfaye.net

Hi :slight_smile:
Is it really worth keeping the Extenion/Add-on? I'd be really tempted
to uninstall it and find some other way to do whatever it does.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

> Hello Dries,
>
> thanks for the pointer. In fact German Post's online stamping extension
is
> causing it. Not being a Java guy ...

<snip />

#7

Well, it's the only way I know of to include a postage stamp directly in the
document. The extension contacts the post service's web service to generate a
dummy barcode with or without sender and recipient addresses for inclusion in
the document. On print you can keep that dummy barcode or buy the real thing
so the printout will include a valid paid postage stamp. Just put it in a
windowed envelope and its ready for dispatch. Saves going to the website
manually and printing out an extra sheet or sticker with the stamp.

Kind regards,
Malte

#8

That's right :slight_smile:
In fact I'm already pretty happy that this extension is available for OO/LO
and not only for MS Word as it used to be.

Regards,
Malte