In your jetty log, can you look for text which starts like this? “Using runtime properties file:” Then tell us the value that follows after that text. In other words, the location of the runtime properties file in use.
Thank you dkayiwa… now i get it… my server says
Using runtime properties file: /root/.OpenMRS/openmrs-runtime.properties
sorry that it took such a long time for the penny to drop
thanks all