Bug 41347 – mldonkey-2.5.11: bad init script

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description crusaderky 2004-02-12 02:27:20 UTC]

the init script for mldonkey-2.5.11 has two SERIOUS bugs; one is a mispelling when creating the directory and another one is an error in start-stop-deamon that prevents mldonkey to start, saying that it can't do mkdir /root/.mldonkey.

I've attached a fixed version using su instead of start-stop-deamon.

[Comment 1 crusaderky 2004-02-12 02:28:29 UTC]

Created attachment 25462 [details]
/etc/init.d/mldonkey

[Comment 2 Benjamin Coles 2004-02-12 05:50:09 UTC]

reassigning

[Comment 3 Detro 2004-02-13 03:10:38 UTC]

Same problem!
But the attach works fine.
Have you forgotten :

# ebegin "Starting MLDonkey";

;-) ???

[Comment 4 crusaderky 2004-02-13 03:38:17 UTC]

Right.

[Comment 5 Ricardo Dávila 2004-02-15 17:28:02 UTC]

New development version of mldonkey core needs HOME var set, or it will try change
to root home and make .mldonkey dir, so simply "export HOME=${BASEDIR}" will
fix the problem.

[Comment 6 Gerald Tan 2004-02-16 12:18:05 UTC]

This is what I changed to fix:
From:
        start-stop-daemon --quiet --start -c ${USER}  \
To:
        HOME=/home/${USER} start-stop-daemon --quiet --start -c ${USER}  \

[Comment 7 Ian Truelsen 2004-02-18 04:21:25 UTC]

Assuming that I don't want to kluge the init script after every update, how do I set the HOME variable so that mldonkey can be run at boot? I tried adding it to /etc/profile, but it broke my user login.

[Comment 8 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-23 10:38:37 UTC]

*** Bug 41900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 9 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-24 03:20:11 UTC]

fixed in portage.

[Comment 10 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-26 11:14:14 UTC]

forgot to mark fixed...