Dear HPS, in the past, I was able to start the monitoring app with a custom connection file, that allows me to write to the condition systems (only the LED table!). I was using: -Dorg.hps.conditions.connection.file=$DBFILE when launching the monitoring app. The content of the $DBFILE is ($DBFILE is readable) hostname = hpsdb.jlab.org user = hpscalibrations password = W42R6xqP database = hps_conditions It seems that now this file is not considered, when I launch the monitoring app, I see: NFO: Opening conditions db connection ... url: jdbc:mysql://hpsdb.jlab.org:3306/hps_conditions user: hpsuser it looks like this is ignored. How can I specify the connection properties? It looks the file is completely ignored, if I enter a non-existing file, the system does not complain.. Txs Andrea ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1