Mark Grover created BIGTOP-1006:
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Summary: Explicitly state the working directory to be used in init
scripts instead of relying on user's home directories
Key: BIGTOP-1006
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1006
Project: Bigtop
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Debian, RPM
Affects Versions: 0.6.0
Reporter: Mark Grover
Assignee: Mark Grover
Fix For: 0.7.0
Presently, the init script template cd's into a working directory when running
the init script (reference:
https://github.com/apache/bigtop/blob/master/bigtop-packages/src/templates/init.d.tmpl#L86)
When no such variable (WORKING_DIR) is provided when building the init script,
it will default to the user in question's home directory.
This can lead to problems in upgrade scenarios. Say the user "mapred" already
exists (say because the user had an old or existing installation of Bigtop) and
that user has a different working directory for the user that no longer
exists.
When Bigtop package installation occurs, it doesn't create the user if it
already exists. In such a case, the init script fails because it can't cd into
the home directory.
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