On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:40:34PM -0700, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > I searched lots of scripting FAQs but didn't find a way to find the > location of home dir. The problem is that when the postinst script runs, > it runs as root and $HOME variable contains /root not /home. Should I > just abandon that idea and post in documentation that my software needs > manual configuration after install? Is it against Debian rules to ask > the user to enter a directory path in the postinst script? FHS says that /home/ is for users, no? If this is something a user should be able to run (as I understand it is), then it should be configurable without root rights, and the postinst is root-only. Justin
> Bruno Barrera C. wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 15:31 -0700, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > > > > > >>Thank you for review. When you said "You ship some dirs into > >>debian/dirs. Do you really think that all of > >>them are necessary?" did you mean the it's unnecessary to create > >>/home/auctiongallery directory? Because if I don't create the directory > >>for the storage of pictures and descriptions it defeats the purpose of > >>having multi-user features. > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Stan > >> > >> > > > >I mean that you need to be careful with this and do some research, since > >not all systems are using /home as partition for its users. > > > >Try to look in other packages who creates users to know how they handle > >this issue. > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Justin Pryzby whois jgalt References [0] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]