Bug 141992

Summary:	boot services looks / instead of /root for root-specific dot confs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) <lcars>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-28 04:21:52 UTC

Example:

in a LDAP setup root user needs /root/.ldaprc for client side certs (they cannot
be specified globally). In a LDAP setup recent baselayouts apparently mess with
$HOME during startup and services tries to find /.ldaprc instead of /root/.ldaprc.

Without that file things like courier-imap, sendmail, openssh with ldap patch and
so on will fail to load the proper configuration and require restarting after boot
for fixage.

Copying (or linking) /root/.ldaprc to / solves the problem but it's certainly ugly.

Comment 1 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-28 04:34:02 UTC

Using baselayout-1.11.15-r3

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-07-30 16:49:24 UTC

should work fine with baselayout-1.12.x

imho, putting config files in /root/ for services is stupid in the first place