The JAVA_HOME environment variable is used by FishEye to select the Java Virtual machine to be used to run FishEye. If this environment variable is not set, FishEye will use whatever Java executable is available on the path. In Linux systems, this may sometimes be the gcj based which has some problems running FishEye.

FishEye uses the FISHEYE_OPTS environment variable to pass parameters to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) used to run FishEye. This is typically used to set the Java heap size available to FishEye. WIth a Sun JVM, for example, you would use:

FISHEYE_OPTS=-Xmx256m

This would give FishEye a 256 MByte heap.

It is possible to put other JVM options into the FISHEYE_OPTS environment variable. For example, the -Xrs options should be used if running FishEye as a service under Windows to prevent the JVM closing when an interactive user logs out.

FISHEYE_ARGS are the arguments which will be passed to FishEye when it is started. You can set this to --debug, for example, if you always want to have FishEye debugging put into the FishEye log files

The FISHEYE_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable tells FishEye where it should look to load any additional native libraries

FISHEYE_HOME is the location of the FishEye application. By default FishEye will set this to the directory above the fisheyectl script

The FISHEYE_INST variable tells FishEye where to store its data. If you wish to separate FishEye's data from it application files in FISHEYE_HOME, you should use this variable.