Procedure for moving data directory:

The location of where Urchin stores its report data can be changed in the urchin.conf file, which is located in the etc directory of the main Urchin installation directory.

For UNIX-type systems:

1. Open a command shell as the user that Urchin was installed as
2. cd to the directory where Urchin is installed
3. Stop the Urchin services with the command: bin/urchinctl stop
4. Using a text editor, open the urchin.conf file in the etc directory of the Urchin distribution
5. Uncomment the following line by removing the leading ‘#’ character:#dataDirectory: ./data/

   and substitute the full directory path you want to use instead of the default directory, e.g.

   dataDirectory: /bigdisk/urchin/data/

6. If necessary, create the new data directory. Important note: this directory must be readable and writable by the user Urchin runs as.
7. Copy the existing data to the new location. To ensure that all permissions and data are properly preserved, it is recommended that you use the following command:cd data; tar cf – . | (cd /bigdisk/urchin/data; tar xpf -)
8. Rename the data directory to data.old. You can remove it completely if you wish, but you may want to ensure that everything is working properly before doing this.
9. chown -R urchin_user:urchin_group /bigdisk/urchin/data
10. For ease of administration, you may want to create a symlink in the main Urchin directory pointing at this new location, e.g.ln -s /bigdisk/urchin/data ./data
11. Restart the Urchin services with the command: bin/urchinctl start
12. Log in to Urchin as the admin user. You should be presented with the License Urchin screen. Simply click on the Reactivate License link and you are finished.

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root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#bin/urchinctl

Usage: urchinctl [-v] [-h] [-e] [-s|-w] [-p port] action
where:
-v prints out the version of urchinctl
-h prints out this information
-e activates encryption (SSL) in the webserver
-s performs the action on the Urchin scheduler ONLY
-w performs the action on the Urchin webserver ONLY
-p specifies the port for the webserver to listen on

action is either: start, stop, restart, or status

start: starts the webserver and scheduler
stop: stops the webserver and scheduler
restart: stops and then starts the webserver and scheduler
status: prints out whether the webserver and scheduler are running

By default, the action is performed on both the webserver and the
scheduler unless the -s or -w options are specified

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#bin/urchinctl start
Urchin webserver started on port 9999
Urchin scheduler started

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#bin/urchinctl stop
Urchin webserver stopped
Urchin scheduler stopped
You can find a daemon script in the util directory of the base installation directory.

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#ls -la util/urchin_daemons
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 1267 Oct 28 18:38 util/urchin_daemons

This is a SysV daemon script and it also supports chkconfig.

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#cp util/urchin_daemons /etc/init.d/urchin
root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#chmod 755 /etc/init.d/urchin
root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#chkconfig urchin on
root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#chkconfig --list urchin
urchin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#
You can now start this as you would any other daemon.

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#/etc/init.d/urchin start
Urchin webserver started on port 9999
Urchin scheduler started

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#/etc/init.d/urchin stop
Urchin webserver stopped
Urchin scheduler stopped

You may also use the service helper if it is installed.

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#service urchin start
Urchin webserver started on port 9999
Urchin scheduler started

root@root [/usr/local/urchin]#service urchin stop
Urchin webserver stopped
Urchin scheduler stopped

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Considerations

• Due to the way licensing is implemented on UNIX-type systems to prevent tampering, moving Urchin’s data directory will require the Urchin license to be reactivated. However, the relicense operation is extremely simple – you merely need to log in as the Urchin admin user and click Reactivate License.
• Windows users who later upgrade Urchin, will have to edit the ~urchin\etc\urchin.conf file. That file is overwritten with default settings during any Urchin upgrade, so you will need to restore your custom data location settings.

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