Windows SP 2.6.0

[Young, Darren]

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>Well, that would be a one-time thing for a new system in general with the
>flag set, I'm just saying you would need to prime it once to get it into
>the state it needs to be in to manage it going forward on its own. It's
>not formally supported to "prime" it by hand. I'm not saying it won't
>work (it likely will) but it isn't supported and could break if something
>we change breaks it.

It¹s taking 5 minutes on any restart of the service, even when the file is
sitting in var/ after the previous startup. Once it¹s up and running the
refreshes seem to be fine, at least from what I can tell in the logs.

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>If you manage it that way, it doesn't go in var/run, it would go in etc/
>as you originally asked about.
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>If the metadata provider is told to load from a file or path and not a
>url, it will look in etc/shibboleth, whereas the backingFile for a url
>would end up in var/cache/
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>You own and manage etc/ but you can't touch var/
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>That's Linux-oriented but the software is aligned to that convention.

Makes sense.

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>I'll report back once I've had a chance to test the load time on my copy.

Thanks.
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