Well if your debug.log is not being created that is a major roadblock you must fix that first or you would be flying blind when changing the config.  Your basically running a copy with a datadir somewhere else but making changes to a copy that never gets executed so try to find your debug.log first.

How about doing the find command for debug.log - its usually in (~/.biblepaycore), and once you find it, that is the place to modify your biblepay.conf file (if you will run as that user).

Then all these pool commands will work fine

Good luck.