For now you can edit the nodetool script itself by adding
-Duser.home=/tmp
as in
"$JAVA" $JAVA_AGENT -cp "$CLASSPATH"
-Xmx32m
-Duser.home=/tmp
-Dlogback.configurationFile=logback-tools.xml
-Dstorage-config="$CASSANDRA_CONF"
org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool -p $JMX_PORT $ARGS
How should nodetool command be run as the user "nobody"?
The nodetool command fails with an exception if it cannot create a
.cassandra directory in the current user's home directory.
I'd like to schedule some nodetool commands to run with least privilege as
cron jobs. I'd like to run them as the
