issue about passing neo4j location on command-line

[ekremkaraca]

I have neo4j -version 1.8.1- installed on Ubuntu 12.10 from official deb repository. I wanted to give a try neography, first I passed "rake neo4j:install" because it's already installed but next I couldn't run "rake neo4j:start" beacuse it couldn't find location of neo4j. I couldn't find the command that I could pass location of it like:
"rake neo4j:install --dir=/path/to/neo4j"

[henry74]

If you installed neo4j through the deb repository, it should already be running as a service. Try typing:

ps aux|grep neo4j

If you do not see anything, try typing:

sudo service neo4j-service start

[ekremkaraca]

Here are outputs of command Henry described -Thanks him for his directions-:

~$: ps aux|grep neo4j
neo4j     3306 16.8  5.2 802920 102128 ?       Sl   09:38   0:06 /usr/bin/java -cp /var/lib/neo4j/lib/geronimo-jta_1.1_spec-1.1.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/lucene-core-3.5.0.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-cypher-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-graph-algo-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-graph-matching-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-jmx-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-kernel-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-lucene-index-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-shell-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/neo4j-udc-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/org.apache.servicemix.bundles.jline-0.9.94_1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/scala-library-2.9.1-1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/lib/server-api-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/antlr-2.7.7.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/asm-3.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/asm-analysis-3.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/asm-commons-3.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/asm-tree-3.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/asm-util-3.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/bcprov-jdk16-140.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/blueprints-core-1.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/blueprints-neo4j-graph-1.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-beanutils-core-1.8.0.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-configuration-1.6.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-digester-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-io-1.4.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/gremlin-groovy-1.5.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/gremlin-java-1.5.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/groovy-1.8.5.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.7.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jackson-jaxrs-1.9.7.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.7.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/janino-2.5.10.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jansi-1.5.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.6.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jersey-core-1.9.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jersey-multipart-1.9.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jersey-server-1.9.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jettison-1.3.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jetty-6.1.25.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jetty-util-6.1.25.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/jsr311-api-1.1.2.r612.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/logback-access-0.9.30.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/logback-classic-0.9.30.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/logback-core-0.9.30.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/mimepull-1.6.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/neo4j-cypher-plugin-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/neo4j-gremlin-plugin-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/neo4j-server-1.8.1-static-web.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/neo4j-server-1.8.1.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/pipes-1.0.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/rrd4j-2.0.7.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.2.jar:/var/lib/neo4j/system/lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar -server -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Dorg.neo4j.server.properties=conf/neo4j-server.properties -Djava.util.logging.config.file=conf/logging.properties -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dlog4j.configuration=file:conf/log4j.properties -Dorg.neo4j.server.properties=/var/lib/neo4j/conf/neo4j-server.properties -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/neo4j/conf/logging.properties -Dneo4j.home=/var/lib/neo4j -Dneo4j.instance=/var/lib/neo4j -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 org.neo4j.server.Bootstrapper ekrem     5296  0.0  0.0   4392   836 pts/3    S+   09:39   0:00 grep --color=auto neo4j

~#: service neo4j-service start
WARNING: Max 1024 open files allowed, minimum of 40 000 recommended. See the Neo4j manual.
WARNING! You are using an unsupported Java runtime. Please use JDK 6.
Another server-process is running with [3306], cannot start a new one. Exiting.

On the other hand, in my ruby app which is located at "~/Desktop/neo4japp":

~/Desktop/neo4japp$ rake neo4j:start
Starting Neo4j...
rake aborted!
No such file or directory - neo4j/bin/neo4j start
/home/ekrem/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p374/gems/neography-1.0.6/lib/neography/tasks.rb:64:in ``'
/home/ekrem/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p374/gems/neography-1.0.6/lib/neography/tasks.rb:64:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/home/ekrem/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p374/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
/home/ekrem/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p374/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'

In my opinion, at last command, it was looking for a location which is relative and its binaries should be under the app I created. So, I should enter exact location at command-line to make it work.

In addition;
• neo4j-shell works at port 1337
• neo4j-service works at port 7474

[henry74]

You don't need to run the rake neo4j:start command. It's already running.

[ekremkaraca]

sorry about delaying, it really works and does not need to run install&start commands. thank you Henry:)