Bug 265969

Summary:	net-p2p/rtorrent init.d script should support homedirs outside /home
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) <darkside>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	loki_val
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch for the initscript

Description Michał Górny archtester

2009-04-13 10:50:02 UTC

Currently, init.d script provided with rtorrent uses simple /home/$USER to set homedir for rtorrent. In some more complex configurations it's possible that user running rtorrent has homedir outside /home (e.g. in /srv).

I think we should instead use passwd to determine the real homedir. As I wasn't able to find any standard tool allowing to easily get that information within one command call, I decided to use getent+awk, which should work fine.

AFAICS gawk is part of system set even of BSD, so using it shouldn't cause any trouble, I think. But getent is part of glibc, so I'm not sure what to do about it (2>/dev/null ? [ -x … ] ?).

I assumed that if for some reason getent+awk return empty string, we fallback to old /home/$USER behavior.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2009-04-13 10:51:16 UTC

Created attachment 188207 [details, diff]
Patch for the initscript

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-05-20 03:09:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=188207) [edit]
> Patch for the initscript
> 

Nice, thx. No version bump here though.

I don't know about fbsd either, I guess I will re-evaluate when someone suggests a fix (or complains).