On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:40, Felipe Massia Pereira wrote: > Kaare Hviid wrote: > > If /home is mounted over NFS via an automount map, root is unlikely to > > be able to create directories in /home. While root can be configured > > to be allowed to write in individual home directories, it can't > > automatically create an automount map, which is very common in larger > > NFS setups. Thus, it's very unfortunate that the debian/preinst script > > fails - if it has to create a /home/ANONYMOUS directory, could it > > possibly be set to just warn if it detects autofs? Something along the > > lines of: > > ... > > Ok for this package, but the problem of creating a dir on an > autofs-mounted /home remains unsolved. Other packages will eventually > need to do this (anonymous ftp packages come to mind). > > I think there must be a way for the admin(box owner) to set the default > dir for creating new home dirs. I used "useradd -D -b /l/home". I think > useradd is an optional package, though, and may be not there. > > Anyway, I wonder why do they create /home/ANONYMOUS and not > /var/cache/cups-pdf or alike. I need to read docs...
Usually cups-pdf uses /var/spool/cups-pdf for all output but I will extend the possibilities for output destinations so the setup can be better adapted for Debian. Volker > []s > -- Felipe -- Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-888-5766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
