[clue-admin] Odd CVS warning publishing the website
David L. Anselmi
anselmi at anselmi.us
Thu Feb 8 18:00:09 MST 2007
Jed S. Baer wrote:
[...]
> I'll restart apache again. But this raises questions in my mind about real
> vs. effective uids, and how the system is being booted. I'd heard (in
> Ubuntu) about "rootless" startups. Does CentOS do this by booting as user
> X, and sudoing the services?
"rootless" probably means that root has no login credentials. I'm
pretty sure init still runs as UID 0 and so root is running all the init
scripts.
[...]
> So, I can see a kludge to fix this, by having the publish script set
> HOME=/var/www, or something.
Unsetting HOME seems to work too. You could put that in the init.d
script as an alternative. I'm a little surprised that sudo leaves it set.
Dave
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