It works if the user's profile is loaded. Usually sa is run from some startup daemon. Daemons are usually started with a very minimal environment - maybe a little bit of path, and some OS type settings and they rarely execute some .login/.cshrc script to load the environment. With no true user profile loaded, what does ~user/bayes mean? I'm guessing "/bayes".
Keith > Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: >> I don't think it's a bug... >> >> what does ~spamd/ mean? I'm not familiar with that kind of syntax. >> ~ usually means "home directory of the calling user"... and that's >> expanded for you... >> There's an idiom in the web world of calling personal user folders >> /~user (as in http://www.example.com/~janet/) but that's just to >> evoke the ~ idea, not a strict syntax > > Never mind, apparently ~user is a real syntax (I learn something new every > day!) >
