On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:38:29AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > Package: twm > Version: 4.1.0-5 > Severity: minor > > (this is an upstream bug) > > If twm is called without $HOME set, it can't find the users home directory, so > can't look there for config files. $HOME is the better source to find out about a user's home dir. getpwent is only used to initialize it.
See http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/getpwnam.3.html#NOTES > [23:06:56,385,Twm-Log] can't find user's HOME, looking for config file in > current directory. > > I've straced and ltraced twm, and it calls getenv("HOME"), but not getpwent. > Gimp, in this same situation, does properly find the user's home directory. > > This particular user is not logged in. Su was used to change to the user, and > start the process. The easy workaround is to use env HOME=/what/ever/you/want twm Best regards Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110222101931.GA4626@cassiopeia
