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Is this supposed to be working also when your Jira is running on a linux/unix server?

April 26, 2017jira linux running server Unix working

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Is this supposed to be working also when your Jira is running on a linux/unix server?

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The comments in the .properties file state: # Use this syntax if “ss.exe” is located in another computer over your LAN: ssExe.dir=\\\\MYSERVERMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe This UNC-path naming is only valid for Windows I presume – I tried it anyway, but Jira fails to start and I see this in the log: 2007-11-13 16:58:36,878 main ERROR [com.atlassian.jira.ComponentManager] Error occurred while starting component. java.lang.IllegalStateException: ss.exe not found as “/home/webapp/\\SERVER\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe/ss.