[FEAT] Allow to provide initial system.properties

[peku33]

Is this a new feature request?

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Wanted change

To be able to provide some settings for system.properties.

Reason for change

I've noticed that in the README you advise to manually override inform url for devices. The option however, as you mentioned, moves around the ui frequently.

There is also another way to set it, more programmatically, by setting system_ip = 1.2.3.4 in system.properties, and I've tested this works as expected.

However when system.properties is present on first run, some scripts are not fired and app does not start up. This is especially problematic when configuring system with ansible, as it requires to run -> stop -> modify -> run.

It would be really nice to have an option to provide some additional settings for system.properties on container start.

This would also allow to make same changes to web portal ports, which requires similar change to this file.

Proposed code change

No response

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[aptalca]

However when system.properties is present on first run, some scripts are not fired and app does not start up.

The only thing that's skipped is adding the mongodb url. You can add that in yourself. Make sure to use the default system.properties file from this repo when you modify

[peku33]

Yeah, for today it's only the url. But if anything else is added in the future it will require manual adjustments again. Maybe it would be relatively easy to mount something like init-script.sh that will be merged with autogenerated system.properties?

[aptalca]

You can do whatever you want
https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2019-09-14-customizing-our-containers

But I don't get your use case at all other than wanting to use ansible. How frequently are you setting up a new container? I honestly set mine up once about 7 years ago. Even when I migrated my server, I restored from a backup, so it wasn't a new setup per se.

When you set it up or move it to a new server, all you need to do is open the gui once and update the inform url setting if the server IP changed.

[Dave-c-Ross]

My use case is a bit different, but would required the same feature. I am running the UnifiNetworkApp in OpenShift, and I would like to run it as secure as I can, which mean changing some ports and injecting my certs. I was also looking for some init-script, but I wasn't aware of https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2019-09-14-customizing-our-containers , that might answer my questions :) Thanks @aptalca

[drizuid]

closing as something we will not implement/support.