William Zhou wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the book, apache user is created with the home directory /dev/null.
> This default setting
> works perfect, until I installed ViewVC. It took me a long time to
> figure it out.

> I guessed
> ViewVC just tests whether the home existed or not, and in this case,
> /dev/null existes. So it looks
> for the file, and thus makes the program fails.
> 
> A quick fix is to change the home directory of user apache to anything
> but not files. However, I suggested creating an empty directories for it.

I added a note to the book and an entry to the User Notes.

This type of report would be better as a new ticket so the editors won't
forget about it.  Its not necessary in this case because it is already
fixed.

  -- bruce
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