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<p class="MsoNormal">I modified the location of shibboleth2.xml via the "-c" parameter on the shibd daemon invocation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I moved the config file from /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml to alternate location.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I invoked shibd. I modified shibboleth2.xml in alternate location.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I stopped and started shibd. I confirmed changes to shibboleth2.xml in alternate location were having effect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I continued making changes to shibboleth2.xml in alternate location.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I noticed some changes were not having effect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I happen to look in native.log: ongoing references to /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps other software components/RPMs were still pointing to default location?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I undid steps to utilize alternate location for shibboleth2.xml. Everything worked fine.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there procedure for relocating shibboleth2.xml<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">John Inkmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Core Computing Division, Enterprise Services Operations, Web Systems Administration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Exploring Nature at the Smallest Scale)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Mail Stop 369, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Email:
<a href="mailto:inkmann@fnal.gov"><span style="color:blue">inkmann@fnal.gov</span></a>, Voice 630.840.6508<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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