Re: Problems with SlimServer 5.4.0 Cache Directory

[Floyd]

dean blackketter wrote:
>The default is to create the cache directory in the home directory of the
>user running slimserver. In the RPM, that's a new user called
>"slimserver" which has its home in /usr/local/slimserver, which is ok.
>
>It sounds like you are using the RPM, but running under root. Not
>recommended...

I'm not running slimserver as root. It is started by the rc script with
daemon --user slimserver. And if it was running as root, it would have
been able to create the cache under /root. However, it does seem that
it is getting the home directory of root as it's default cache directory.

I tried tracing some things:

In defaultCacheDir (Slim/Utils/Prefs.pm) $ENV{'HOME'} is /usr/slimserver
(this is correct for how I laid out my installation) and defaultCacheDir
returns "/usr/slimserver". This is without the --cachedir command line option.

That's as far as I got for now. I'm sorry that I'm not familiar enough with
the code to track this down.

Also, if the cachedir is specified in /etc/slimserver.conf as:

cachedir = /var/slimserver

Why doesn't it use that directory when --cachedir is not on the command line.

[dean]

On Dec 17, 2004, at 10:32 AM, Floyd wrote:

> dean blackketter wrote:
>> The default is to create the cache directory in the home directory of
>> the user running slimserver. In the RPM, that's a new user called
>> "slimserver" which has its home in /usr/local/slimserver, which is
>> ok.
>>
>> It sounds like you are using the RPM, but running under root. Not
>> recommended...
>
> I'm not running slimserver as root. It is started by the rc script with
> daemon --user slimserver. And if it was running as root, it would have
> been able to create the cache under /root. However, it does seem that
> it is getting the home directory of root as it's default cache
> directory.
Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. I see what's going on. The
default path is determined before the process is switched to the new
user. Probably not right.