The Apache user's home dir is still set to /home/httpd while this directory does not exist, causing strange errors. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
What strange errors are you seeing? The apache user is a default in /etc/passwd, though I'm not sure why - the ebuild should probably add the user, and the default get taken out of /etc/passwd. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html looks like it's been approved. I assume apache will move to that standard once it's implemented.
It are errors with cacti, installed into htdocs/cacti/ - but the cronjob executes in ~apache/cacti or so (so /home/httpd/cacti which does not exist).
What about setting the home directory to somewhere inside /srv? So, we could follow the /srv GLEP 20 some day, too. (as we should) see: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0020.html
As of apache-1.3.33-r1 and apache-2.0.52-r3. Apache will now add the apache user and group by himself using enewuser and enewgroup commands in the ebuild. The default homedir (for now) is set to /var/www. I'd appreciate the base-system herd, when they will remove the apache entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/group though (thanks).
Assigning to base-system. Our side is fixed, now it's their turn.
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*** Bug 51982 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
